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James Ross Kelly lives in Northern California next to the Sacramento River. Mr. Kelly was a long-time resident of Southern Oregon where he grew up. And the Fires We Talked About published by Uncollected Press in 2020 is Mr. Kelly’s first book of fiction. In 2024 Mr. Kelly published his third book, "Above Neil Rock," a memoir.
by James Ross Kelly

Praying, Believing and Open Communion | Frederick Schmidt


Prosper of Aquitaine, a disciple of St. Augustine in the church’s early efforts to clarify its faith coined a phrase in Latin that is often condensed and reads, lex orandi, lex credendi.  Loosely translated the Latin (it is often said) means, “the law of praying is the law of believing” or – to put it more directly,

Source: Praying, Believing and Open Communion | Frederick Schmidt

by James Ross Kelly

Our Sin Is Not A Zero Sum Game | Morgan Guyton


I sinned. I reacted impulsively and opportunistically to the Covington Catholic drama with my hot take on how disrespect for other cultures is rooted in an […]

Source: Our Sin Is Not A Zero Sum Game | Morgan Guyton

by James Ross Kelly

The Illusionist – The New Atlantis


The Illusionist

Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.

David Bentley Hart

It seems to me that we have come this way before. Some of the signposts are new, perhaps — “Bacteria,” “Bach,” and so on — but the scenery looks very familiar, if now somewhat overgrown, and it is hard not to feel that the path is the same one that Daniel Dennett has been treading for five decades. I suppose it would be foolish to expect anything else. As often as not, it is the questions we fail to ask — and so the presuppositions we leave intact — that determine the courses our arguments take; and Dennett has been studiously avoiding the same set of questions for most of his career.

Source: The Illusionist – The New Atlantis

by James Ross Kelly

The American Psychological Association is a Feminist, Partisan Organization – Jack Donovan


Jack Donovan’s assessment of the American Psychological Association.

Source: The APA is a Feminist, Partisan Organization – Jack Donovan

“If three members of the communist party peer-reviewed an analysis of capitalism, written by another member of the communist party, would you consider that analysis to be “scientific” or “objective”?

The American Psychological Association recently announced that “traditional masculinity” — or as I prefer to call it, masculinity — is psychologically “harmful.”

They claim that this designation is based on 40 years of peer-reviewed “research,” but in fact it is based on 40 years of people with the same philosophical and political bias repeating and affirming their beliefs back and forth to each other in a closed circle in which dissent is routinely dismissed or punished.

There’s no reason why one would expect a group of communists to produce an unbiased analysis of capitalism, and there’s no reason that one would expect a group dominated by women and avowed feminist activists and intellectuals to produce an unbiased analysis of masculinity. Their agenda is open, and Ryon McDermott, who helped develop these guidelines, proclaimed in the announcement that his goal was to “change the world” by “changing men.”

That’s crucial. The objective of the APA isn’t to help men better navigate the challenges of being what they are, but to change them completely.”

Jack Donovan