5th Friday this week, which means site maintenance. Had some unexpected goofing off to do these last couple days, seriously cutting into my internet time, so not getting to as many site improvements as I’d like. Nonetheless, here’s a collection of new links for the sidebar:
It’s not that I mean to be a Jeffery Smith groupie, it’s just that he puts together some really interesting blogs, I don’t care if he is a tad grumpy. Ever Ancient, Ever New is a quiet blog – at this writing, the most recent entry dates from April 2008 — but thought-provoking. If you like to think about what makes good church architecture, check this one out. Russian Art is exactly what it sounds like. The entries cover all eras, and I haven’t been disappointed with any of them.
Wish I could remember who it was that pointed me to No Question Left Behind: Teens Helping Teens. Another accurately-titled blog, this one is devoted to catholic teens answering questions from other [catholic?] teens. Good stuff. And a reminder for old people that teenagers do care about God and want to know the truth – even if, like older adults, they don’t always act on the truth as quickly and completely as the aged bystanders would like. [Or, conversely, make us uncomfortable by answering God’s call more thoroughly than considered appropriate in polite company.] And speaking of answering God’s call, there’s The Blog that’s all about RCIA. Just what it says.
Banner month for clearly-titled blogs: The Orwell Diaries is the publication of George Orwell’s, um, diaries. There for you who are literary types, and for the rest of us who sometimes get our feet wet, even if we’d never in a million years pass for Serious Literary Thinkers. I’ve stuck it on the ‘online books and audio books category’ for now, which is close enough to what it is.
Also into that category goes the Requiem Reader. Put together by Jim Curley, the author of one of my all time favorite blogs Bethune Catholic, this project of his publishes excerpts of books published by Requiem Press (which he owns and operates). Wide variety of genres. I guess I’m a Jim Curley groupie, too. Is it the ‘J’ names, or something else?
I’m sticking Taylor Marshall’s Canterbury Tales into the ‘history’ category, though like many of the links in the blogroll, it could fit in several places. Not a blog about Chaucer (though he’s probably in there somewhere), but does cover lots of church history and biblical history. I don’t read this blog as often as I ought, because I’m usually surfing for brain candy, and this is the kind of blog you have to concentrate on, if you are junior intellectual like myself. More advanced readers won’t have that problem.
And the final addition the blog roll this go round is In the Light of the Law, a canon law blog written by an actual canon lawyer. Fear not: Despite the fact that the internet overflows with bitter people who pitch angry snippets from the code canon law at anyone who dresses funny or sings poorly, canon law is really kind of fun, when held in competent hands. Dr. Peters looks at current events in the church, and helps the reader understand precisely how canon law does and does not apply. Fascinating and vitriol-free.
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And that’s it for this month. I can’t for the life of me remember what it was I meant to write about next week for economics, so I can’t give you a preview. You’ll just have to wait (and so will I). Have a good week, and see you in September.
