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This site contains CWNY’s works from 3/3/12 through 7/31/21, when CWNY ceased writing, as noted by his family in The Minstrel Sleeps. To download a pdf of all posts from this time period, go to About this site. (You may also download individual posts and pages, using a plugin we’ve made available.)
Please note that this site includes all posts from his previously de-platformed blog, which were completely restored as of 6/10/22. Should you wish to view only those restored posts, use the category link: Older posts (pre-April 2019).
For CWNY’s writing from 5/25/06 to 2/25/12, visit his older blog, still available here.
More content on this site is also available on the Remembrances page, which includes his final, albeit unfinished, Christmas story, and To His Readers (4/21/19), which he posted after his return from being deplatformed.
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Archives
Category Archives: Antique Christianity
A Mystery
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: – I Corinthians 2: 7 _____ For it is only through our mysterious human relationships, through the … Continue reading
The Miracle of Christian Europe
They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to … Continue reading
Depth Speaks to Depth
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. – John 3:16 _____ Look to thy soul, O man, for none can be surety … Continue reading
The Red Death of Liberalism
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? – Matthew 16: 26 _____ And Jesus called a little child … Continue reading
The Mystic Toyland
Childhood’s joy land,Mystic, merry toy landOnce you cross its bordersYou can ne’er return again. -Mother Goose in The March of the Wooden Soldiers _____ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, … Continue reading
The Light of the World
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.The stars in the sky looked down where he lay,The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,But … Continue reading
The Reptiles
Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle … Continue reading
The Heart and the Hearth Fire
Of my wretched uncles’ religion what am I to say? Was it utter hypocrisy, or had it at any time a vein of sincerity in it? I cannot say. I don’t believe that he had any heart left for religion, … Continue reading
Liberaldom is Hell
Hell is empty,And all the devils are here.—The Tempest ____________________ Two days ago I read an account of yet another woman who had been sexually molested by Brett Kavanaugh. As I read the account I realized that the woman making … Continue reading
His Europe Shall Not Pass Away
What can I give Him, poor as I am?If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart. –Christina Rossetti _________________________ … Continue reading