Posts by evelynunderhill

For most of my life I have observed with alarm that men don't read literary fiction. Nowadays, one does well to find men who read books of any sort--detective fiction, biographies, histories--but it's literary fiction I'm focusing on. Why? Because, as has been noted by many cultural analysts over many years, good fiction stirs up empathy and d […]

Perhaps the most galling feature of the resurgence of "scientific" materialists is how truly terrible the science itself is. Take this passage from an interview with neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky: A muscle did something. Meaning a neuron in your motor cortex commanded your muscle to do that. That neuron fired only because it got inputs from […]

Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist is far more wildly popular than most Canadians and most psychologists.  Where he is not popular he has been the flashpoint for considerable debate and controversy.  Who would have thought that a professor of psychology with a deep interest in the work of Karl Jung and Friedrich Nietzshe could generate so […]

We have a catechetical crisis in our church. Vast swaths of our laity and not a few clergy are unable to articulate even the most rudimentary understanding of either baptism or eucharist.

Since this is the first day of the General Ordination Exams, I am re-posting my blog from last year.  This blog will not be hosting any GOE commentary this year, for reasons outlined below.  And, since Crusty always buries the lede beneath a sea of words, I have added to last year's post a note at the end I will be stepping away from the blog overall fo […]

At school the second quarter is coming to an end and we're gearing up for midterms. It wasn't until my friends from All Things Rite & Musical tweeted a link to my Anglo-Catholic Future talk that I realized it was up for listening! So---here you will find the audio of me talking about my take continue reading

Patrick Comerford The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge has announced details of this year’s Summer School.The two-day Summer School takes place on 30-31 August 2019 at Wesley House in Cambridge. This taught course is open to everyone and discusses the topic of ‘Community, Difference and Division in the Orthodox Church.’The team of lectur […]

All you really need to know about this is that there is not a single Roman Catholic anywhere in it.