Here are a few links I've come across in the last few days that I wanted to pass on.
Excellent quote from Fr. Alexey Young at Mind in the Heart.
A good reminder from Study in Brown.
RJ Anderson has a thought-provoking post on double standards and Christian censorship.
And on a similar subject, the Common Room has a post about categorizations.
A few of these I'd like to return to in more detail later. Remind me of that if they don't appear within a few days. :)
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This is a blog for my writing and also any random musings that I may happen to spurt out. Please note that all writings are by me, unless otherwise stated and do not take them for your own. Thank you! Maureen
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- MaureenE
- I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian girl, living in the Northwest United States and a college student. I studied in London, England, spring semester of my junior year, which was an amazing experience! I tend to talk about books here but you never really know what is going to pop up!
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What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.
Robin McKinley, Sunshine, p. 383
Robin McKinley, Sunshine, p. 383
Books currently checked out
- A Bone from a Dry Sea
- A Handbook of Costume
- A Short History of Costume and Armour
- Dealing with Dragons
- Graceling
- Lord of the Fading Lands
- Ombria in Shadow
- Patterns of Fashion 1
- Patterns of Fashion 2
- Patterns of Fashion: Elizabethan
- Ring for Jeeves
- Solstice Wood
- Something Rich and Strange
- The Eddy Fence: poems
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- The Last valois, 1515-90
- The Lion in the Gateway
- The Mad Farmer Poems
- Unexpected Magic
- Western European Costume and its Relation to the Theatre
NaNoWriMo 08
Favorite Authors Week
Blogs and links
- 350
- A Dusty Frame
- Adventures in Mercy
- Amy's Humble Musings
- Anna Maria Horner
- Austen Blog
- Between the Stacks
- Bigger than a Breadbox
- Body, Soul, and Spirit
- Bookshelves of Doom
- Charis Connection
- Dancing with Dragons, and Other Hobbies I Enjoy
- Deb on the Run
- Eastern Orthodox Librarian
- Flowershop Girl
- Heart and Home
- Here in the Bonny Glen
- IDD
- Imperfect Cogitare
- In the Shadow of His Wings
- Inkygirl
- Katie
- Krakovianka
- Krista
- Lanier's Books
- Life: The Journey
- Melissa Wiley
- Miss Elizabeth
- My graphics site
- Neil Gaiman
- Orthodox Mother's Digest
- Our Blue Castle
- Pleasant View Schoolhouse
- Robin McKinley's blog
- Simple, Green, Frugal
- So Much More...?
- Squeetus
- Study in Brown
- The Common Room
- The Great Adventure
- The IDD Blog
- The Reader's Corner
- This is Life!
- YLCF
1 comment:
I agree with the quote from Fr. Young. I know a handful of people who, when the Tridentine Mass ceased to be available, stopped going to Mass altogether. While I acknowledge the superior beauty of the Tridentine Mass, it did make me wonder if they went to Mass for Christ, or merely for the beauty of the Mass.
Re Anderson's quote, as a parent of a teenager, I agree (wholeheartedly) with the reason for more alarm over sexual content than violence. Having read those type of books in the past myself, I see how even if I don't want to be tempted, I have to use a fair amount of self-control to get past that, and I'm not confident that a young person who's not accustomed to having to deal with curbing hormonal urges will have the self-control yet to avoid falling. However, while I don't insist the books should be banned outright, necessarily, it would be better if they weren't in the public library. No parent has time to monitor all the books an avid reader brings home - we can't know, unless our child tells us (mine does, when I ask), whether the books she is reading have sexual content. I've discussed the book issue with her, and although my 13-year-old is not interested in sex at this time, I can't know what changes the next 3 or 4 years will bring.
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