The Guild Review

The Guild Review is a blog of art, culture, faith and politics. We seek understanding, not conformity.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

The Christmas Mystery, as told by The Friendly Beasts

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Although I have been known to criticize, in passing, the over-emphasis on carols at Christmas , today I'd like to draw attention to a wo...
Friday, November 21, 2014

A Note from Myself

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A couple weeks ago my wife and I visited my family in Arizona. Among other things, we went to mass with them on Sunday, the Feast of the De...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

What Guy Fawkes Day Means to Me

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Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Day, is a curious holiday.  It commemorates the failure on 5 November 1605 of the Gunpowder Plot, a sc...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

St. Augustine on Music

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I have recently been reading through a delightful little volume titled Augustine Day by Day  (hence the recent post from his Confessions ). ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Because Augustine Is Always a Good Idea

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A couple passages from Augustine's Confessions for your Monday: I asked the earth, and it answered, “I am not he”; and everything in t...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Auden's "September 1, 1939"

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Earlier this year I discovered W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," thanks to an article in the Financial Times . The po...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Seeing the Beatitudes Anew

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Recently I have been reading Matthew's Gospel and I was really struck by the Beatitudes, both for their forcefulness and their role in f...
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