“When our teams lose at Wembley we think of the colleagues and classmates we have to face on Monday morning, and of the delirium that has been denied us; it seems inconceivable that we will allow ourselves to be this vulnerable again. I felt that I didn’t have the courage to be a football fan.… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
“. . . not only was [Charlie] George Arsenal’s own, nurtured on the North Bank and in the youth team, but he looked and behaved as if running around on the pitch dressed as a player were the simplest way to avoid ejection from the stadium.” Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 48-9.
October 19, 2011
“Who wants to be stuck with who they are the whole time? I for one wanted time out from being a jug-eared, bespectacled, suburban twerp once in a while; I loved being able to frighten the shoppers in Derby or Norwich or Southampton (and they were frightened — you could see it). My opportunities for… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
“When Christianity entered into the world, it was immediately called on to face a difficult problem. Christianity, which is based on revelation, appeared in a world which had long existed and led its own life. A society had ben formed which was full of intricate interests. A state was in existence the citizens of which… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“It is not true that all the founders, or even almost all, were devout, Bible-believing Christians along the lines we associate with twenty-first-century evangelical Christians. Evangelical Christians who lack a vibrant ecclesiology and are therefore inclined to turn the nation into their church are sometimes tempted to embrace this counter-distortion. The result is a hyper-patriotism… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“The confinement of the question of God or of the gods to the private sphere constitutes what might be described as political atheism. Many today who are believers in private have been persuaded, or intimidated, into accepting political atheism.” Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (New York: Basic, 2009), 93.
October 19, 2011
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