The Queue: To the Thresholds

Wikipedia-link Ad limina apostolorum

My copy of Ad Limina, which was printed on-demand in the summer of 2020, does not sport the cover art pictured above, much to my chagrin. Cyril Jones-Kellett, simplified as Cy Kellett, is the host of the popular call-in radio show-cum-podcast Catholic Answers Live! as well as the companion podcast Catholic Answers Focus. Ad Limina is indeed "a novella of Catholics in space," a breathe of fresh air in science fiction that all-too-often makes the risible assumption that man, an inherently religious creature throughout recorded history, will simply cease being religious in the next century or two; this magical thinking marrs much even supposedly rational hard science fiction. The greatest weakness of Ad Limina is that it is a novella; methinks the story would have benefitted being lengthened into a novel. It is high praise when one's biggest complaint about a book is that one wishes there was more of the same. Need any more reason to read Ad Limina? Two words: Space Nazis.

I mean to engage seriously with Venerable Fulton Sheen's Life of Christ, though when I need to take a rest to allow the archbishop's brilliance the time necessary to soak through my thick skull, I'll breeze through Hobbo, the coffee table book autobiography of the great television broadcaster & race car driver David Hobbs.

It is great to be reading regularly again, but there are tradeoffs. Project BLACK MAMBA is suffering, as is my commitment to my Bible-in-a-year Twitter reading group. I really don't miss television, so at least I'm not wasting much time on the idiot box. (I also like the nickname "idiot's lantern.")

Recently
Peter Hitchens, The Rage against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
Skip Carmichael, The Frozen Lighthouse
Cyril Jones-Kellett, Ad Limina

Currently
Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
David Hobbs with Andrew Marriot, Hobbo: Motor Racer, Motor Mouth—The Autobiography of David Hobbs

Presently
Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor Collection
Michael Gorn, N.A.S.A.: The Complete Illustrated History
Brandon Vogt, What to Say and How to Say It: Discuss Your Catholic Faith with Clarity and Confidence