In the latest issue of Counterpunch, JoAnn Wypijewski tells the story of Keith Jennings, a resident of Stony Ridge, Ohio. Mr Jennings couldn’t keep up with his house payments, so the bank owns it now. He has responded to this by enlisting a group of local youths to seal the house off, covering it in [...]
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Counterpunch, 1-15 March 2012
Posted by acilius on March 22, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/03/22/counterpunch-1-15-march-2012/
Marcel Duchamp, Calvinist
Tonight, Mrs Acilius and I were watching TV. The program was a documentary called Paris: The Luminous Years. In a video clip from the 1960s, Marcel Duchamp said every visual artwork was a collection of shapes and colors. The essence of art lay in the artist’s choice of these shapes and colors. One set of [...]
Posted by acilius on October 25, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/10/25/marcel-duchamp-calvinist/
Friends Journal, September 2011
The September 2011 issue of Friends Journal includes a couple of brief pieces I wanted to note. Geoffrey Kaiser writes of “Three Kinds of Singing in Meeting.” Kaiser tells of an old document he found when he was visiting Quaker meetings in New England in 1980. This document was an official statement that a monthly [...]
Posted by acilius on September 17, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/09/17/friends-journal-september-2011/
“We do not believe in appointing Deputies to do what we think it wrong for ourselves to do”
This summer Mrs Acilius and I read Ryan P. Jordan‘s Slavery and the Meetinghouse, a study of the great difficulty American Quakers had in the years 1821-1861 trying to decide on an approach to take to the issue of slavery. Last night I was reminded of this passage, from pages 114 through 115 of Jordan’s [...]
Posted by acilius on September 16, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/09/16/we-do-not-believe-in-appointing-deputies-to-do-what-we-think-it-wrong-for-ourselves-to-do/
In the flesh?
Most Sundays, Mrs Acilius and I can be found in a Quaker meeting down the street from our home. She is a member of that meeting and a convinced adherent of the brand of Christianity associated with Quakerism; I’m not a member of any religious group, nor am I convinced of the truth of any [...]
Posted by acilius on September 2, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/09/02/in-the-flesh/
In what God did Irving Babbitt disbelieve?
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) often made remarks to the effect that religion was a good thing, though he never endorsed any particular religion, and certainly never joined any. Such scholars as Claes G. Ryn have argued that Babbitt, despite his personal irreligion, is a powerful intellectual ally for believers. After Babbitt’s death, his closest friend, Paul [...]
Posted by acilius on March 18, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/03/18/in-what-god-did-irving-babbitt-disbelieve/
“The Meeting,” by John Greenleaf Whittier
Paul Elmer More’s essay on Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, mentioned below, quotes Whittier’s poem “The Meeting.” The poem is long, and not aimed at 21st century literary sensibilities. It begins with a long passage from a visitor who reproves Whittier for attending the silent meetings of Quakers, deprecating them as “dull rites of drowsy-head” [...]
Posted by acilius on January 6, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/06/the-meeting-by-john-greenleaf-whittier/
Friends Journal, January 2011
During our Christmas break, the Believer and I read the latest issue of the Quaker publication Friends Journal. I also read several books, among them the third volume of Paul Elmer More’s Shelburne Essays. The themes of this month’s issue of the magazine seemed to coincide in some interesting ways with the themes More explored [...]
Posted by acilius on January 4, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/04/friends-journal-january-2011/
The Religious Case Against Belief
I like book catalogs, so it’s always one of the high points of the month for me when Edward Hamilton Bargain Books shows up in the mailbox. Lately I’ve been intrigued by a 2008 title, The Religious Case Against Belief, by James P. Carse. When I say I was intrigued by the title, I mean precisely [...]
Posted by acilius on March 11, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/03/11/the-religious-case-against-belief/
The labors of Hercules
George Washington may have been in some ways uniquely admirable as a political leader, but as a slaveholder he was no better than he found it convenient to be. Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer reports on recently discovered documents that show how brutally Washington could treat even his most favored household slaves. When Washington went to Philadelphia to head [...]
Posted by acilius on February 22, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/02/22/the-labors-of-hercules/
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