do you hold the same beliefs today that you held 10 years ago? 5 years ago? 1 year ago? wisd-umm is having tempered confidence in what you know in this moment, while staying open to new evidence and experiences that may change in the future
steak-umm bless
We need to stop letting domesticated Habsburgs gallivant all over the country; our politics are too unstable to introduce descendants of a hereditary monarchy into the mix at present
Today I will give a lecture on Cardinal Mindszenty in beautiful St. Michael's Abbey in the hills near L.A.
Wonderful Norbertine community with 🇭🇺 Hungarian roots, and dozens of young vocations.
@gcaw
I have, in total earnestness, long maintained that part of the reason my grandma was able to have 6 kids on my grandpa’s salary was because it was in the early 60s before car seat laws.
@WB_Baskerville
Mine is sometimes having a hunk of cheese and handful of bread with some wine and calling it a meal. I call it “peasant girl dinner” as a yassified variation on “Ploughman’s lunch.”
@BretDevereaux
As a woman who likes to read military history, I especially don’t get this argument, since it basically agrees with the premise that woman aren’t interested in military history. I love a good Julius Caesar write-up or Franklin expedition rehash.
@LevineJonathan
Illiteracy was prevalent then. Written records were very rare. Infants were usually christened three days after birth at that time, so check local parish records? Lots of girls were named Taylor and spelling wasn’t standardized till later, so may still be hard to know for sure.
@NoahCRothman
I just had to cajole the pediatricians’ office out of their Covid policy, which was going to require me to bring my 3 kids in for school checkups on two consecutive days, so that there were no more than two kids in a room at any given time?
“Why do you think it would be better than what we have?” Words to ponder from
@DavidAFrench
this Sunday morning for Catholics as we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King, where we hear Christ tell Pontius Pilate that God’s kingdom “is not of this world.”
@bf_crane
And their milk comes in bags. Celine Dion’s wedding aired live on national tv. All this before we even glance at their bioethical controversies. Truly a cursed place.
@neontaster
“His eyes were wild with fear as they put him on a ventilator. And ‘twas said Farmer Postlesthwaite’s fields did lie fallow tho’ they were goodly enough the eve before. And that same physician did say a two headed goat was born o’Michaelmas!”
@AChillGhost
When I interviewed
@SJ_Murray
for a piece about the grail problem, she really opened my eyes to this. Not something you get if you just grew up with Camelot and the Disney Sword in the Stone.
@AChillGhost
Canticle for Liebowitz, fiction. For nonfiction, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum.
Remember that season where Jon & Kate Plus 8 came back from hiatus & suddenly was about their fame & dissolution of their public marriage? Paparazzi were flooding the Midwest to get shots of her…
@anne_theriault
in a raccoon suit wearing one of those Steve Martin arrow headbands. Women would shout taunts at him, others, their support. When he moved, he wrote a farewell post from his raccoon persona account.
@mikenelson586
I think it would be so funny if, after so many working so hard for years to make fetch happen with soccer in the U.S., cricket fever organically gripped the American populace.
@neontaster
No it’s actually true that Whoopi gets to decide what the Bishops say. Little known footnote in Canon Law. Had to get her permission to marry back in ‘09, we have the framed blessing over our mantle.
@NoahCRothman
So, NO. I told them they didn’t make me do this last year, when Covid was arguably a bigger deal. After a brief hold, I was informed The Powers That Be had looked with favor on my case, graciously granting me an exception, “since I was allowed to bring in all three last year”
@anne_theriault
A well-meaning (?) neighbor where I lived killed a raccoon with a crossbow after seeing him out acting weird during the day. It was the shot that launched 1,000 neighborhood group posts. A Cold War turned hot when a guy started going for walks dressed (cont.)
@katrosenfield
@unherd
“When news broke this week that Harry’s own favourite (albeit sadly unrealised) podcast idea was to interview Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about their childhood trauma, was anyone surprised?” HOW DID I MISS THIS KEY NEWS ITEM
@anne_theriault
I should mention it was ultimately an unwarranted killing, as an autopsy revealed the raccoon had eaten fermented berries and was merely overserved.
My Army officer dad said we “gave at the office” growing up and shouldn’t feel any compulsion to serve. More specifically, he told me, the theater kid with an authority problem, “it wouldn’t be fair to you, and it wouldn’t be fair to the Army.” Which always struck me as valid.
Question for Americans who deeply admire military service but never served:
Why didn’t you?
I’ll answer for myself:
Too selfish
Too lazy
Undisciplined
Weak
Greedy
Hate drudgery
Is this pretty much why you all didn’t serve?
@SnoozyWeiss
Like the Peach Mom thing, where women deliberated over whether they dare disturb the universe by eating a peach, there are others literally measuring their lives in spoons. Who knew The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was such a prescient warning about 21st century womanhood?
@jdflynn
True story, I met him shortly before his death during a private audience, and he gave me a personal blessing on the forehead, held my face in his hands, and said….something to me that I couldn’t make out. So I just said, “Thank you!” and walked away. I wonder what it was.
@kittypurrzog
My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.
Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the universe.
@thehistoryguy
The fact that the book is already out in Spain is so obviously belated retribution for the armada, I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about it.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I wrote for
@tabletmag
about Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hitler’s Germany. One of the first groups interned, their persecution has resonances into the present day, in Russia, China, and around the world.
🚨MARTIN LUTHER🚨
⚡️ One of history’s most transformative figures.
🌏 The man who launched a religious revolution of such bombastic magnitude that it would change the world forever; shattering Christendom and dividing Europe in ways that still reverberate today.
⛪️ But, before
@neontaster
The moment has come, the prophecy has been fulfilled: “one day we’ll have a high profile Millennial politician with cringe high school photos and blackout pics from when Facebook was only for college kids.” What else was Nostradamus right about!?!
@ElliottKalan
@theflophousepod
As someone who listened to the Flophouse as a young adult and now has kids who listen to you on The Who Was podcast and watch MST3K, I personally appreciate your commitment to creating! Thank you for not outsourcing being Elliott Kalan to our robot overlords.
Time was, a German city dealt with a problem like this by hiring a mysterious drifter in colorful clothing to lure their vermin out of the city with his music. But now you can’t because of woke.
@WASPmexicano
Once again coming here to say that I — a journo whose incredibly specific remit is religious literacy — am doing everything I can, but I’M JUST ONE MAN, DAMMIT.
@NoahCRothman
I don’t have time to read this, I’ve got two deadlines before my kids’ holiday concert at school today, and I forgot the reindeer antlers for one of the kids. Apocalypse problems amirite
@ebruenig
Also most of the accused witches weren’t actually practitioners of witchcraft but hapless victims who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And like 20% of the executed in Salem were men.
Humbled to say I’ve been working on this project for a while. A little surreal that it’s all finally happening. Let me know if you have any questions about The Tent,
@tabletmag
’s experiment in introducing normies to the world’s great wisdom traditions.
Convinced this country would be happier, saner and more fulfilled if we had a religious revival. As usual,
@tabletmag
was ahead of the curve with this brilliant idea:
@clhubes
@ghoulcabin
And I am 35 years old, I don’t want my friends turning my dining room table into a beer pong table. I like my dining room. The rug was expensive. Plus, I realize now in a way I didn’t in my teens and early 20s, beer pong is incredibly unhygienic.
@blgtylr
This reminds me of those Disney princess purses they make for little kids that come with cheap pink plastic facsimiles of cell phones and credit cards.
@jarvis_best
@LiteralSheridan
I commented on
@SnoozyWeiss
’s tweet of this piece and am still getting corrected by people saying I don’t really understand the spoon metaphor, because I said it was evocative of the line from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock about measuring one’s life in coffee spoons.
When
@DanaSchwartzzz
told
@dgjones
in the newest Noble Blood ep that she thought she’d be a great royal because she’s an excellent rule follower, I felt that in my BONES.
@dieworkwear
@charlottemf406
Was just saying I want Gwyneth’s trial look. That sweater, those glasses. The fact that they make her look just like Blythe Danner is just a bonus.
Prince Harry’s Millennial spirituality in “Spare.” Me on Haz’s areligiosity, which trends with much of the Anglican Communion on both sides of the Atlantic. (Tip of the hat to
@SSBullivant
’s great work in “Nonverts” on putting this one together)
Like talking about politics? International relations? No? Good! Because that’s not what this is! Intrigued by an interfaith dialogue with thoughtful people about a topic that predates the current Discourse? Then join me at a
@tabletmag
joint this Sunday:
@rhymeswithbee
@default_friend
I’d argue religious literacy is plunging so rapidly that the references might not even read for a lot of younger people.
@SimchaFisher
the weirdest part is the cryptic “hopefully this will make it easier for us to do these play dates more often,” like they’re a mob boss and play dates are an extortion racket
If you’re wondering, “Do they have an entire Catholic chapel hidden away at Boston Logan airport that has Mass on Sundays?” - wonder no longer! I give you Our Lady of the Airways, a full Sunday Mass in 25 minutes 🙏🏼
@default_friend
I saw this on a piece I did on Norse pagans. I looked into the controversy about The Northman being popular with white supremacists, and realized it was just a bunch of other media outlets recycling a Guardian article that quoted two 4chan posts from before the film’s release
@BridgetPhetasy
Yeah Harry’s privacy tour is becoming increasingly queasy-making because you don’t get the feeling he totally groks the level of prurience.
@WASPmexicano
I once heard a Mexican girl give a talk on Mary in high school and she said some of the wildest, least doctrinally-sound, made up things I’ve ever heard in my *life*. There are for sure Catholics who take it and run with it to the weirdest places you can imagine.
@HerreidJohn
Woman who read Chernow’s Grant biography because she loved the Grant anecdotes she grew up with her dad telling her, and now tells Grant anecdotes 👋🏼
Outstanding excercise in religious literacy on the
@Commentary
podcast today with
@SethAMandel
&
@jpodhoretz
tagteaming on what, exactly, Hanukkah *is.* Worth noting, Maccabees shows up in Catholic scriptural canon, but not across the Christian tradition.
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! I’m hosting a
@tabletmag
convo about the urgent need for Christian response to antisemitism with
@WordOnFire
CEO Father Steve Grunow, and
@philosproject
exec director Luke Moon. Register here:
@JeremyMcLellan
Love this. Congrats! Said a rosary for John Mulaney when I found out, since I’m the kind of person who says rosaries for my favorite celebrities...