Saturday, August 31, 2013

The Leper of St. Giles by Ellis Peters

Next in the Cadfael series. Probably the best I have read in the series so far, not so much for the mystery, but for the sensitive and Christian manner of acting of some of the principal characters, in particular Cadfael and the leper of the title.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Bad Religion by Ross Douthat

Douthat is among the more Chestertonian voices writing today. In this work, his claim is that the dominant religious culture in America today is not unbelief or indifference, but various forms of Christian heresy. His answer is a call to the historical Christian witness of individual sanctity rather than political mobilization.