I know what I would like this blog to be like. Pontifications. Now that is a blog. There isn’t another one like it. The first great thing about this was that it was anonymous, which gave it are a sort of seriousness. The second thing was that the man behind it, Alvin Kimel, really worked at it, posting a phenomenal amount, and of top quality stuff from all parts of the Christian tradition. He has taste, and I have to admit that he has broadened my taste. He posted lots of C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and Newman. I read his extracts from these writers who I had assumed i knew all about without ever actually having read them. I read, and I was impressed and thrilled. I scoff no more. Kimel quoted passages which sounded as though they were written this morning, absolutely fresh, to the point and accurate about our present predicament. Of course we always think our predicament is unprecedented. You can still see these wonderful extracts.
I can’t compete with Kimel’s Pontifications but imitation is flattery, and all that. He wrote, still writes, pieces about the struggle for the Episcopal church in the US, so it had a hard news feel to it, which this blog wont have. His blog showed him agonising about whether to stick with the Episcopal Church, which seemed to understand nothing about Christian obedience. Kimel gave up on it, which was a bit of a bombshell, and joined the Roman Catholics in the autumn of 2005. Though Pontifications is no longer his sole work, you should go and have a look, and explore his archives, for the wonders that are there.
