I recently read (but didn’t understand) much of Jeremy Begbie’s Theology, Music and Time. I have many questions and comments to make about this book, but you really don’t need to be subjected to that. Begbie (BLOKE #1) is Vice Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge University, where he teaches systematic theology. He [...]

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The pope is on vacation. Evidently he is at the papal equivalent of Camp David, or maybe Kennebunkport, the papal digs in the Italian Alps region of Castel Gandolfo. Here’s a picture:

He is apparently enjoying his vacation very much, and good for him. The Catholic World News reported on his remarks last [...]

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Daniel Defoe once had a classmate named Timothy Cruso. Any guesses from whence came the name of his famous Robinson Crusoe ? Defoe also apparently gained inspiration from the real-life (voluntary) abandonment of Alexander Selkirk on an island off the coast of Chile in 1704. Defoe’s imagination put the two together in 1719 [...]

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