When Toby Keith eased Merle Haggard’s burdens
Via the Unfinished Pyramid blog, I came across this touching story about the country singer Toby Keith and #AprilCountry outlaw fave Merle Haggard: “It was Super Bowl weekend. Merle had…
Tag: virtue
From Dante’s Woods: The Patience of Hope
From the Dante’s Woods blog: The Church should model this too, as [Rowan] Williams says, “This suggests that the Church needs to be marked by profound patience: patience with actual…
Review of “Homesickness: An American History” by Susan Matt, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2012
This is a wonderful book I heartily recommend, indeed re-reading the review I hope the warmth of my recommendation is clear. The balance Susan Mat strikes between mastery of the…
“silence of the heart is much more important than silence of the mouth”
From Henri Nouwen’s The Way of The Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers These examples of silence in preaching, counseling, and organizing are meant to illustrate how…
“A closed mind and know-it-allness are fundamentally forms of resistance to the truth of real things” – Josef Pieper on prudence
From “The Four Cardinal Virtues“: No man is altogether self-sufficient in matters of prudence’; without docilitas there is no perfect prudence. Docilitas, however, is of course not the ‘docility’ and…
What Does it Take? – from “Dispatches from the Undergrowth” blog, on saving a species
Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…
Rene Girard – “Envy in our world is the real unconscious, the real taboo”
From “Reading the Bible with Rene Girard: Conversations with Steven E. Berry” by Michael Hardin, Scott Cowdell As for mediated desire, the more democratic the world becomes, the less concrete…
On Sophocles and conflicting virtues: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre
The ancestor of one of these sets of answers is Plato, for whom as we have seen the virtues are not merely compatible with each other, but the presence of…
Séamus Sweeney 