All The Fulness

Whatever became of conservatism?

My Endlessly Rocking friend Thomas has a post on his weblog this morning asking himself whether he is, any longer, a "conservative".  It is a good question, one that I have been pondering, too, after being a "movement conservative" all of my adult life (which is rather a long time, now).  But is there really a "conservative movement" anymore?  And if not, how is it possible to remain a conservative in the old sense?

Fr Harju on Paper Faith

Here's a sample of the excellence that has been added to my blogroll.  Father Benjamin Harju writes on the relationship among confessional subscription, systematic theology, and the holy liturgy (guess which one wins):

... the Faith doesn't come pre-packaged in anatomy books (i.e. multi-volume dogmatic treatises crisp enough to give you a nose bleed). Our Lord Jesus imparts a revelation that is to be lived (or better put, that lives its own life in you), for the revelation He gives is Life Himself. And this Life - our Heavenly Father through His Son and by His Spirit - isn't received in pieces, but altogether through the sacramental life of the Church.

Read the whole thing.

Changes to the Blogroll

I've made several changes to the blogroll on this site:  a few deletions and a bunch of additions.

Deletions

I don't like making deletions to the blogroll.  Every weblog listed is a site that I find real value in, and I don't want to leave the impression that a site is no longer valuable.  There are a few, however, that have either explicitly "closed up shop" or have been dormant for so long that it seems clear that the author has no current intent to maintain it.
Accordingly, I've removed the following weblogs:

• Drowning Myself Whenever I Can - This site has been deleted by the author.  If he should ever return to the blogosphere, I'll link to him again
• Bunnie Diehl - I've held off a long time deleting this one; but it's been inactive quite a long while, and I suspect the author is otherwise active in the blogosphere (and is linked from this page as well).
• Confessions of a Young Lutheran - another seemingly dormant blog.  If it lights up again, I'll link to it.

(Conspicuous by its absence from this list is "Here We Stand", which has also been explicitly shut down by its author.  I don't expect HWS to re-surface anytime soon, but its author has pride of place as the founder of the confessional Lutheran blogosphere.  I'm leaving the link up as a mark of respect for that primacy.)

Additions

These are stolen shamelessly, but with gratitude, from Fr John Fenton's blogroll.  Many of them I've already been reading regularly, but just hadn't gotten around to blogrolling; others are new to me.  In any case, they are all excellent.

• Ad Orientem
• Apologies and Confessions
• Confessing Reader
• Father Hollywood
• Glory to God for All Things
• Gottesblog
• Incarnatus Est
• Paredwka - Dropping the Ball
• Priest Matthew Jackson
• ProtoEvangel
• This Side of the Pulpit
• Writ-In-Red