May 7, 2012
"It has always interested me to know what happens after the great moments in history to the women associated by natural ties to the actors. I would like to know what St. Monica had to do after her son, St Augustine, heard the child in the garden say, ‘Tolle lege, tolle lege,’ and was converted to Christianity; how she treated with the family of the little heiress whom St. Augustine was then obliged to jilt, how she dismissed the concubine with whom he had been passing the difficult time of his engagement, how she gave up the lease of the house in Milan. These are the things you are never told."

— Rebecca West.

(Source: garbandier, via wesleyhill)

May 7, 2012
"A faith which held that the Son of God was born in a manger, associated himself with persons of humble station in an unimportant Province, and died a slave’s death, yet did this to redeem all men, rich and poor, free men and slaves, citizens and barbarians, required a completely new way of looking at human beings; if all are children of God and equally capable of salvation, then all, irrespective of status or talent, vice or virtue, merit the serious attention of the poet, the novelist, and the historian."

— W. H. Auden, qtd. here (via wesleyhill)

May 7, 2012
Druidical Capitalism and Satanists Who Sound Like Christians: The Other Journal

kylejnolan:

Silly Satanists. We are far better at worshipping your god than you will ever be.

Yep.

May 7, 2012
"Whether in relation to language, to narrative or to images, Dostoevsky’s fiction insists upon an anthropology, a coherent conception of the human, and the anthropology he outlines is consistently one in which the human operates in recognizably human fashion only in an imaginative world where human beings are seen as bearing significance beyond themselves, and particularly beyond their self-understanding as individuals."

— Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction.

(Source: invisibleforeigner)

May 7, 2012
NEW FAVOURITE TUMBLR
EVER
I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID EARLIER

NEW FAVOURITE TUMBLR

EVER

I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID EARLIER

(Source: felrod, via theologyryangosling)

May 7, 2012
tumblr feels so empty

we’re just chasing our taaaaaiiiils
in the riiiiiising suuuuuun
and our darkwater planet still spins in a race
where no-one wiiiiiiins and no-one’s one

I’m tempted to follow that up with the chorus “I don’t belong here”, but everyone does, really, full of words and music and signifying nothing, and all that.

I just don’t think the tumblr community in general is for me.

ON THE OTHER HAND

I NOW HAVE EVERY BOOK (not quite but close)

brb reading Against the Day forever

March 19, 2012

(Source: booksdirectonline.com, via drowninginhisgracee)

March 19, 2012
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If you ever want to talk: My tumblr ask is always open.
March 19, 2012
thingsmostgrey:

stfuconservatives:

newwavefeminism:

lau-ra-sau-rus:

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

afterromulus:

librariansoul:

icaruscalling:

Okay, I found the source for this map. It’s from here. That’s it in PDF,
This is the page about the 2012 report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and here is the full report in PDF (in just under 250 pages).
Some 2011 information.

This makes me feel ill.

Well doesn’t this just explain everything

AND… that just ruined my dinner.

dysfunction.

you mean legal levels of minimum wage at best put workers who spend their entire day laboring doesn’t even provide them with LIVABLE a standard of living? But people on welfare are parasites & freeloaders to the state? HMMMMMMMM

(reblogging for references & commentary)

This is nonsense.

thingsmostgrey:

stfuconservatives:

newwavefeminism:

lau-ra-sau-rus:

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

afterromulus:

librariansoul:

icaruscalling:

Okay, I found the source for this map. It’s from here. That’s it in PDF,

This is the page about the 2012 report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and here is the full report in PDF (in just under 250 pages).

Some 2011 information.

This makes me feel ill.

Well doesn’t this just explain everything

AND… that just ruined my dinner.

dysfunction.

you mean legal levels of minimum wage at best put workers who spend their entire day laboring doesn’t even provide them with LIVABLE a standard of living? But people on welfare are parasites & freeloaders to the state? HMMMMMMMM

(reblogging for references & commentary)

This is nonsense.

(Source: brosephstalin, via absurdreasoning)

March 19, 2012
"The supernatural vitality of hope overflows, moreover, and sheds its light also upon the rejuvenated powers of natural hope. The lives of countless saints attest to this truly astonishing fact. It seems surprising, however, how seldom the enchanting youthfulness of our great saints is noticed; especially of those saints who were active in the world as builders and founders. There is hardly anything comparable to just this youthfulness of the saint that testifies so challengingly to the fact that is surely most relevant for contemporary man: that, in the most literal sense of these words, nothing more eminently preserves and founds “eternal youth” than the theological virtue of hope. It alone can bestow on man the certain possession of that aspiration that is at once relaxed and disciplined, that adaptability and readiness, that strong-hearted freshness, that resilient joy, that steady perseverance in trust that so distinguish the young and make them loveable."

Josef Pieper. Reminds me of that marvelous passage in Chesterton that concludes with, “our Father is younger than we.”

(Source: wesleyhill)

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