24 Jan Reflections on Thomism
“Yes, these days all the live-in girlfriends are Thomists,” I was writing this morning, to my Chief Buncombe Correspondent. (The county is in North Carolina.) I was commenting on his...
21 Jan Reflections on the Revelation of Love
If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well. These words of the woman with the haemorrhage can be heard in at least two ways. In one way,...
16 Jan Reflections on Theo-drama
In the opening of his Letter to the Ephesians, St Paul describes the drama that is being played out between the Persons of the Trinity and the whole of creation....
08 Jan Wang An-shih
Among my heroes is a Chinese statesman of the eleventh century. Gentle reader may not immediately guess that this would be the famed, or infamed, Wang An-shih, whose reputation is...