I've discovered the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, via Wikipedia.  You can access all sorts of literature, free to read.  I've decided I should resume working through The Ante-Nicene Fathers.  But this time I'll start at the beginning, instead of with Origen.  I need to read on this period anyway, by sheer nature of being a Christian who ( Read more... )

 Reading can develop into an odd habit.  I set page-per-day/session goals and compile lists of books that I should read.  And the temptation arises to read for the sake of simply being able to know and say that I read.  But what does it matter how quickly I read if pages are remembered as a blur-  as a passings-by of that which was only potentially ( Read more... )

 What I see in myself, and in others, is a tragic anxiety, manifesting itself in regrettable compromises. For lack of spouse we lust; for lack of wealth we spend frivilously; for lack of fitness we satisfy all gluttony and sloth; for lack of perfect resources we curse; for lack of better peers we pride in ourselves... we sin in acting out our ( Read more... )