“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

A prayer before (midterm) action

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, And lead us not into temptation, but...

The crocodile will still eat you

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly,...

The wisdom of St. John of Damascus

Below is given the the testimony of St. John of Damascus and his comments on what he knew to be “the superstition of the Ishmaelites”, and what we today call “Islam”. It is informative to the modern reader because it shows us that many of the...

The stench of sulphur

The news coming out of the Catholic Church these days concerning the massive sexual abuse scandal festering at its heart goes from bad to worse with every passing day: One of the most influential figures in getting Francis elected pope was Washington, DC’s former...

The power and the glory

Seeing as how it is Sunday – well, it is for me, anyway – and given that I am in a thoroughly pagan land, I figured it might be useful to take a look at how God’s grace can transform even the worst of men. If you do not know who David Wood is, I...

They have to go back

The more closely one looks at Islam with anything like a normal desire to weigh up the evidence and come to rational conclusions about what one finds, the more one is driven to the unavoidable fact that Islam is absolutely incompatible with Western civilisation....

TransMoggrification

The more I see and hear of a certain back-bench MP from Somerset named Jacob Rees-Mogg, the more I like him: Well now. This is a chap that I can definitely support. It is not just the upper-crust stuffy Eton-Oxbridge accent which I like – I am actually a big fan...