A Commonplace Book by Joshua Lore

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Nov

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‘Lex Amoris’, by Denis Sarazhin
01
Nov

A Patience With Your Own Crap: Philip Roth on Writing

Remnick:—What did experience give you? Roth: Patience. That is, the patience to outlast your frustration. The confidence that if
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28
Oct

Prayer and the Benedictine Life - A Time to Keep Silence

Patrick Leigh Fermor on prayer and the Benedictine life at the Abbey St. Wandrille: “The dominating factor of monastic existence
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27
Oct

Thomas Merton on The World

One of Thomas Merton’s continual but fruitful struggles was with how to approach, understand, and relate to, “world”. It’
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25
Oct

Confessions of an Israeli traitor - The Washington Post

This is an important and unsettling piece Confessions of an Israeli traitor - The Washington Post
25
Oct

A Lesson for Netanyahu From a Real Holocaust Historian | Foreign Policy

“Bibi’s self-serving, Palestinian-blaming version of Nazi history is just plain wrong, writes Christopher R. Browning.” A Lesson
21
Oct

The Religion of the Technocratic Mind |

A post over at my blog Tempus in Forma. The first of a series of posts on the religion of
21
Oct

Fall, Robert Frost, and the Flowering of Loss |

A little Fall reflection posted over at my other blog, Tempus in Forma. Check it out. Fall, Robert Frost, and