Siris

* Karen Marie Knapp died in her sleep on August 1; blogging at From the Anchor Hold , she was a staple of the blogosphere. She first posted...

Horace Jeffery Hodges looks at Christian echoes in the Harry Potter books. (See here as well.) I had missed the "great silver cross...

Ralph Luker has a great post commenting on some recent commentary on a speech by Obama: Great rhetoric works best when it is not innovativ...

Matutinal In the silent distance I can hear the tumult of the dogs a-glow; they bound on clouds and bay. A shaft shoots swiftly forth to str...

A tiny taste of what I've been listening to lately.... * Johnny Cash: Ghost Riders in the Sky (originally performed by Stan Jones) * Th...

From Chapter X of Michael Flynn's Eifelheim : I was teaching still at the Albert-Louis, and Tom sent me an e-mail asking me the manorial...

Orac notes this story about parents increasingly claiming religious exemption to prevent their children from being vaccinated. He then say...