It was a mystery. A New Orleans couple discovered an 1,800-yearold Roman tombstone in their backyard. No, it wasn’t evidence that the Roman Empire had spread farther westward than previously known. The explanation turned out to be not unexpected. And the tombstone eventually found its way to where it belonged.
The worldwide Anglican Church has been moving in this direction for some time, but the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury brought the fracture. The new archbishop will not be installed until March, but the appointment itself was sufficient. The Anglican churches of Asia, Africa, South America, and even some in North America have “declared a reset of the Anglican Communion,” and the Anglican Church in England is not invited (presumably along with the Anglican churches in Canada and Australia and the Episcopal Church in the United States).
Robert Frost kept a small one in his pocket. Gerard Manly Hopkins toted one as well. I’m not in their league, but I carry one with me almost everywhere I go. “It” is the notebook, and T.M. Moore at Front Porch Republic extols its virtues.
More Good Reads
America 250
William Billings: Patriot, composer, leather-tanner – David Stowe at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Cornwallis Yields: The Yorktown Surrender – Jason Clark at This is the Day.
An Englishman’s Journal of the Revolutionary War: The Journals of Nicholas Cresswell 1774-1777 – Kenneth Bancroft at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Arthur Lee’s Warning – Bob Ruppert at Journal of the American Revolution.
In January 1776, Virginia’s Port City of Norfolk Was Set Ablaze, Galvanizing the Revolution. But Who Really Lit the Match? – Andrew Lawler at Smithsonian Magazine.
Book Review: War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution – Eric Sterner at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
British Stuff
Can London never change? – Samuel Weiss at The Critic Magazine.
Israel
A Time to Say Thank You – Michael Oren at Clarity.
Life and Culture
Heather Cox Richardson’s Revisionist History – Blake Dodge and Katherine Dee at The Free Press.
Possibilities – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
The Dawn of the Postliterate Society – James Marriott at The Free Press.
Education in a Different Story – Nina Tarpley at Front Porch Republic.
Faith
How to Stay Human: C.S. Lewis on the Doctrine of Man – Louis Markos at Desiring God.
What Do Miniature Codices Tell Us About Early Christianity? #2 – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.
The Plight of the Christian Scholar – John Ahern at Mere Orthodoxy.
Writing and Literature
Big Lessons from Small Things – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
Poetry
Sonnet 14: “If thou dost love me, let it be for nought” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
My little Poem: howl – Megan Willome as inspired by Vachel Lindsay.
Art, Life, and the Sonnet – Angela Alaimo O’Donnell at New Verse Review.
“High Barbary,” poem by J. Howard Stables – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
On Being Haunted by Milton’s Paradise Lost – Matthew Smith at Mere Orthodoxy.
“The Death of Autumn,” poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Ruminant – poem by Megan Willome.
Aodhán King – Time – Lauren Daigle
Painting: A Breton Infants School, watercolor over pencil on paper (1882), by Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer (1824-1909).
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