Browsing some of my favorite blogs today I ran across the following:

From A Conservative Blog for Peace: Rod Dreher considers a crunchy-traditionalist option – Rod Dreher is editor of the Sunday commentary section of The Dallas Morning News, and author of “Crunchy Cons” (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. Born and raised a Methodist in south Louisiana, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993. He has written for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal on religious issues.

Mr. Dreher and his family are in the process of a lot of soul searching in regard to Roman Catholicism. They need prayers for this difficult journey. They also need a lot less of the snarky criticism that some R.C. commentators just love to engage in. Read about his search and his reasons it in his own words.

I wholeheartedly agree with the motivations. I’ve been through it myself.

From Orthodixie: Was Gilligan’s Island hell and was Gilligan Satan? Funny, interesting, and well —“ a little scary.

Also, Fr Joseph Huneycutt has a book out: One Flew Over the Onion Dome — American Orthodox Converts, Retreads & Reverts

The book is available from the Regina Orthodox Press.

There’s been a lot of discussion on-line about converts, reverts, and those who were born into the faith. I imagine that the book will be quite interesting.

From Bonfire of the Vanities: Fr. Martin Fox did a homily this past Sunday, Making Jesus Known in the Breaking of the Bread, which he posted to his blog. The homily had some humor about children in Church and why those who complain about being ‘distracted’ by children are missing the whole point. Well, mothers who do home schooling have been talking up this homily and his stats show the power of these moms.

In our parish we have no nursery or ‘crying room’. We want those children right in church, with their families throughout the Holy Mass. That is where they will learn by the very behavior their parents model.