My favorite part of holiday dinners is not the turkey or the ham, but the cornbread dressing. It's been like that for me since my childhood in the rural South. I can't separate my fondness for cornbread dressing from memories of my grandmother, at whose cottage table I ate helping after helping of it every Thanksgiving and Christmas, until she passed away the summer I was nine, … [Read more...] about Rod Dreher’s Christmas Toasted Cornbread-Pecan Dressing
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Why Early Appalachian Settlers Originally Celebrated Christmas in January
Source: Appalachian Magazine. Ask any of the millions of children scattered throughout the Appalachian Mountains what day of the year Christmas is on and you will undoubtedly hear, “December 25th”. Everyone from Northern Alabama to the Katahdin Summit in Maine knows that it is on this date that Santa Claus comes to town. Interestingly, if you had been roaming … [Read more...] about Why Early Appalachian Settlers Originally Celebrated Christmas in January
The Danger of Anger
By Frederica Mathewes-Green Source: Frederica.com. Anger is an emotion that can carry us away so easily. Back when I was in (Episcopal) seminary, in the 1970s, pastoral theology students were taught that it was important for people to express their anger. Don’t repress it! Let it out! When counseling parishioners, that’s what they were trained to say. Then … [Read more...] about The Danger of Anger
The Poverty of European Civilization
The poverty of European civilization1 has been revealed by this war.2 The ugly nakedness of Europe has brought to shame all those who used to bow before Europe's mask. It was a silken shining mask hiding the inner ugliness and poverty of Europe. The mask was called: culture, civilization, progress, modernism. All was only vanitas vanitatum and povertas povertatum. When the soul … [Read more...] about The Poverty of European Civilization
The Revolutionary Mentality is the Confusion of our Time
The ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho provide important tools not only to analyze, but to criticize and resist the destructive current cultural currents of our time. Many of these currents spring from the ideologies that oppressed our brothers and sisters in Europe. By Fabio L. Leite THE THREE INVERSIONS Three "inversions" characterize the … [Read more...] about The Revolutionary Mentality is the Confusion of our Time