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Category Archives: Travel
Vienna
Our long overnight rail travel from Budapest to Bucharest is underway. The “Ister” leaves Budapest Keleti daily at 19:10 and arrives at Bucharest Nord at 11:38 the next morning. We left right on time, and I’m hopeful we’ll arrive at … Continue reading
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Parisian Retrospective
Today is Thursday and we’re bound for Vienna. Already having passed through Salzburg, our Austrian-operated Railjet train winds its way through the verdant springtime hill country, and we should disembark shortly after two o’clock. Yesterday, our third and final day … Continue reading
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Triomphe
Triomphe. Our second day in Paris brought us triumph even though we began inauspiciously. After a splendid breakfast at the Marriott, we walked the couple of blocks to the metro station and inadvertently bought weekend day passes for the metro … Continue reading
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Notre Dame de Paris
A predictably but uneventfully long flight got us in to Charles de Gaulle Airport by midmorning today. We cleared immigration in record time, with no questions and scarcely a glance from the agent as we entered France for our first … Continue reading
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Stabilitas Loci, or Remembering My True Home
In stabilitas loci our late modern world confronts a way of life even less imaginable, if possible, than the monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Stability of place, and even more importantly stability of community, strike our jet setting … Continue reading
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March for Life
Thinking of myself as a “protester” participating in a “cause” requires some imaginative exertion. Slogans, placards, chants, and marches simply strike me as too simple, too blunt as instruments, to do much work. They can, moreover, too easily devolve in … Continue reading
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Greek Religion
After yesterday’s walking tour of the sights of ancient Athens I am convinced that only an extremely ignorant or extremely partisan person could come to think that the Athenians of antiquity were of lackluster or cavalier religious commitment. No city … Continue reading
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Ancient Athens
Ancient Athens, ruined yet resiliently ever renewing of the ideals of human excellence, lies all around me. For long I lay awake last night thinking about what makes this place without peer. Was it a matter of chance that just … Continue reading
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Oxford Reverie, Baylor Reality
Difficult does not describe the circumstances involved in thinking that, little more than a week ago, I was in Oxford. So different in character are my environs, and so less inspiring are the sights and sacred spaces/places around me, that … Continue reading
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Canterbury Cathedral and the Making of a Christian
With Scott Moore and Barry Harvey I left Oxford yesterday morning for Victoria Station, London. We checked our bags at a nearby hotel and then went by train to Canterbury. Some months ago Scott proposed a pilgrimage on our final … Continue reading
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