Blog of the Week: John C. Wright

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I was just about to link to two more great posts from science fiction writer and convert John C. Wright, so I decided instead to just direct you to make is site a Blog of the Week. I've this before and I'll say it again: I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that John C. Wright is a modern-day Chesterton. His musings about his conversion to Christianity (from atheism) are witty, insightful and fascinating. Here is a "best of" list of his posts from the past few months:

• On the assertion that Creationists are like Neonazis
• Signs of a culture with no pride in itself
• When a civilization can't take pride in a fight for survival
• Acceptance of fornication leads to exploitation and abandonment
• The mental wheels of materialism
• The parable of the frog-prince
• Losing religion
  
• Nazis
• Thank God for reasonable atheists
  
• The case of the three blind sons (warning: graphic hypothetical situation)
• Total conversion

I highly recommend spending some time checking out John C. Wright's posts. Almost every time I read his site I read something that really gets me thinking.

UPDATE: Mr. Wright just announced that he will enter the Catholic Church this weekend. Please keep him in your prayers.

Blog of the Week: The Great Deception

I always love to read The Great Deception. Blogger Jenny always tells it like it is, writing posts that are entertaining, concise and sometimes funny about everything from chastity to contraception to faith to politics. I liked this one and this one about some of the widespread lies in our culture, and here she has a good idea for celebrating Advent. And what a great quote at the top of her homepage:

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." - C. S. Lewis

Blog of the Week: I have to sit down.

OK, I was going to link to Simcha yet again, so I decided that I should either just make this site automatically redirect to hers, to just highlight her whole blog as a Blog of the Week. So here it is, one of my favorite reads: I have to sit down. I especially liked her latest post (that also has some great comments) about how she's still not used it, even after seven kids.

Blog of the Week: Purify Your Bride

I wanted to highlight Purify Your Bride as my next Blog of the Week because it never fails to get me thinking. The author always brings up really interesting topics and manages to address them concisely. His recent posts about miracles and that mysterious human love of truth (and how atheists try to explain it away) are some good examples.

Blog of the Week: Reflections of a Paralytic

I'm going to start highlighting some of my favorite blogs roughly once a week. For the inaugural post, I want to highlight one of my favorite new-to-me blogs, Reflections of a Paralytic by Chelsea Zimmerman. Chelsea writes of the reason she started her blog:

If you have read my "about me" page, you know that I was paralyzed in a car accident almost 7 years ago. I have always been a pro-life advocate, but recently I have found myself at the forefront of the stem cell research debate in this country as someone who could theoretically benefit from such research. After testifying at a senate judiciary committee hearing in the state of Missouri in favor of a ban on human [cloning] I have made it my goal to research and educate people about stem cell research and human cloning. This blog is dedicated to promoting and building up a culture of life.

Go check out this great blog.