Robert McCelland at MyBlahg has begun The Canadian Blog Awards, and nominated NWW for "Best Conservative Blog." I'm flattered.
I come at things quite differently than he does, and have been put off by his some time tendency to insult first and reason second. Kudos to Rob for being big about the different approaches. I'll try to do the same.
I'm not under the impression the NWW will score a crushing victory over well known and published names like Andrew Coyne. I'm also up against some blogs I read and enjoy, like Brock: On the Attack, Bound by Gravity and Babbling Brooks, not to mention Jay Currie. But if you like this blog and want to vote, well, what are you waiting for?
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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