Archive for March, 2009
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Being a father of very young children, I don't get out to party much which is probably why I didn't even notice St Patrick's day come and go this week. On having a quick read of the "wikipedia page":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day on St Patrick's day I noticed a paragraph quoting a ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Tonight I read the "Wikipedia entry on Lent":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent seeing as the start of lent completely passed me by. I knew before that the practice of lent comes from the forty days that Jesus spent in the desert after he was baptised. I also knew that lent is traditionally ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I mentioned a month or two back that I've been reading _The Wreck of Western Culture_ by John Carroll. I didn't end up finishing this book (well I skimmed the last bit) because I lost what the point of it was and then it became very overdue from the library. ...
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