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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

In die cinerum: Ash Wednesday Remembrances

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The following is a recollection of Ash Wednesday, 2006 (March 1), which I spent in a visit to the Abbey of St. Hildegard of Bingen , in Eibi...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Vergil’s Messiah: The Pedagogical Use of Medieval Interpretations of Classical Texts

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Vergil and the Sybil receive a vision of the Nativity of Christ. From a 14th-cen. chronicle. This week in the Humanities survey I am t...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Hildegard of Bingen to be named Doctor of the Church

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Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen. Rupertsberg MS, fol. 1r. Update: On May 10, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI formalized Hildegard of Bingen...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

The “Nostradamus” Effect: Prophecy and Its Discontents

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Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination for Scivias III.5 in the Rupertsberg MS. The parched sands of the Middle East are dampened only by b...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Can Faith and Science Coexist?

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"Galileo before the Holy Office" by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. Image from WikiMedia. Are the claims of modern science and...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

This day is call’d the feast of Crispian

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Image from WikiCommons. Today is indeed (or at least was, in the old calendar) [1] the feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian.  Accordi...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Verbum de Verbo: On Translation and its Act of Faith

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Image from the Codex Sinaiticus . Why translate again a work so often done already?  Is there anything new to be gained by publishing an...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Book Review: Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor

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Norman F. Cantor. Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century . New York: M...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Curiosity in and out of the Classroom, Intellectual and Otherwise

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James Lang has a penetrating article over at The Chronicle of Higher Education this week exploring contemporary student culture outside of ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Sunrise, Sunset

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Though today is overcast and cool, yesterday was one of those perfect examples of autumn: a warm, partly-cloudy day that opened and closed c...
Monday, October 10, 2011

The Secrets of Medieval Cathedrals...

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…aren’t really all that secret. But if you’re an overzealous editor at NOVA , you might be tempted to invoke “secretly encoded” informati...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

In novum statum: The Next Stage of Our Lives

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With the slight embarrassment that I am so tardy in sharing this news, I am nevertheless pleased to announce that my wife, Heather, and I h...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

In Principio Novo: This Blog Returns to Life

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For several years now this blog has lain dormant.  Originally conceived as a catch-all for what I fancied were my more important thoughts...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

In Memoriam

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Gloria Byrd Ristow (May 15, 1938-August 1, 2009) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. —I Corinthians 15:26 My grandmoth...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

We’re Engaged!

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I am very happy to announce that I and my girlfriend, Heather Eisler, are engaged. We were visiting my family in Colorado last weekend for ...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Divine Love as both Creative and Rational: The Theophany of Caritas in Hildegard of Bingen's Liber Divinorum Operum

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“Love” today is often primarily understood to signify a passionate, sensual, or even creative feeling; when we think upon it further, we may...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Some Scholarly Pet Peeves

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In some of the reading that I have been doing over the last few weeks, time and again I have run into some of those small practices that hav...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Internal Assessment

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As much as I would like this experience to continue—though perhaps Münster’s weather this week is an indication that it should come to an en...
Monday, July 14, 2008

The “Human Rights” of Chimpanzees

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According to a recent article in the New York Times , a committee of the Spanish parliament last month voted to extend “limited rights to ou...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

The Bells

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As I enter the final full week of my time here in Germany, it is only natural that I should be found in a pensive and reflective mood; as I’...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Finalé, Whoa Oh Oh Oh!

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In their most stress-inducing performance yet, the German national team nevertheless managed to squeak through by the skin of their teeth la...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Germany Won, Austria Zero

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It took twice as long as normal for the bus to get from the train station to my dorm last night, principally due to the streets and traffic ...
Monday, June 16, 2008

"Klingender Dom" Choir Concert

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On Saturday evening, I had the opportunity to attend a truly extraordinary choral concert at the St. Paulus Dom (Cathedral) here in Münster....
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Encounters with the Romantic abound

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It would seem that my time here in Germany has been especially abundant in encounters with that peculiar sensibility which is associated wit...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Abbey of St. Hildegard

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Since North Rhine/Westphalia is a Catholic part of Germany , the week before last, being Whitsunweek (the week of Pentecost), was an officia...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

In Festo Corporis Christi

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Some of you may recall the superlative-laced description I sent out as an email two years ago of the Corpus Christi procession held in the ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The German Pope and His Visit to America

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As Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States last week, I followed the news of his trip eagerly through the American online press. I wa...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Pro-Life Prayer in Münster

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Yesterday afternoon, I participated in a Gebetszug or prayer procession here in Münster called “1000 Crosses for Life”. Organized by Euro...