They formed a softball team and played against the Gay Men’s Chorus and the Metropolitan Community Church (baseball has been “woven into” the group since its earliest days). The ad hoc “order” of Sisters sprang from that as a social club - a civic group no different, in pretentious Kuyperian categories, from the Rotarians or the Elks or Masons or Mummers (although their costumes weren’t quite as flamboyant as those of the latter two). Their original habits were the genuine article - donations provided for an all-male production of The Sound of Music by actual Catholic nuns who got the joke. The Sisters are a group of drag queens who dress as nuns. When one sphere drops the ball, refusing or failing to meet its responsibilities, the others are forced to step up to do more.įor a real-world example of what that looks like, consider the civic association that is the subject of Brooks’ column and of his scorn: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The greatest danger to neighborliness and to justice is not the usurpation Brooks fears - “when one sphere tries to take over another sphere.” The threat to justice, to neighborliness, and to every mutually bound “sphere” of society, rather, is the problem of abdication. Subsidiarity and/or “sphere sovereignty” are descriptions of and guides to neighborliness, not ground rules for a game of musical chairs. This is not what “sphere sovereignty” means. ![]() Brooks enlists this language forgetting that Kuyper’s spheres are distinct, but still “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Brooks seems to think of these spheres as existing in conflict, competition, or tension - as though civic groups, families, and churches were engaged in a tense standoff like the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. “Sphere sovereignty” was Kuyper’s Protestant/democratic revision of subsidiarity - an attempt to preserve its insights without the hierarchical Great Chain of Being baggage in the original. It wasn’t hard to tell which students had read the book and which ones were just riffing based on a loose grasp of the class discussion. When I was a seminary TA, I had to grade papers on Jim Skillen’s book about the Reformed political theology of Abraham Kuyper. It is an attempted “Kuyperian” attack against “little platoons.” It’s a criticism of “the politics of spectacle” that is, itself, an example of “the politics of spectacle.” And, above all, it’s a vivid demonstration of one representative Old White Guy’s bewildered failure to understand that 2023 is not 1983, and thus comes across like a boilerplate “shut up and dribble” rant of the sort that Brooks’ predecessors cranked out about Branch Rickey in 1947. Why waste any more time on this habitually disingenuous hack - this second-generation Reader’s Forum shopper and lifelong capicola-eater? Because Brooks’ column is, I think, confused in some helpfully clarifying ways. Unfortunately, the rest of it is even worse - more pretentious, more confused, and less sincere. The song reached the Top 20 on both the MuchMusic Video Countdown and the Canadian Rock Radio charts.Fortunately, most of Brooks’ column isn’t about baseball. ![]() In 2006, Ten Second Epic came out with another song titled "Old Habits Die Hard". Two versions of "Old Habits Die Hard" are available in the Alfie Original Soundtrack: One performed by Mick Jagger alone, and second version featuring Sheryl Crow. ![]() It was followed by "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from Brokeback Mountain, "The Song of the Heart" from Happy Feet, "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild, and the title theme from The Wrestler. However, the song failed to get nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, making it the first in five consecutive years where the song won the Golden Globe, but failed to get nominated for an Oscar. It won the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. "Old Habits Die Hard" is a song from the 2004 movie Alfie, with music by David Stewart and lyrics by Mick Jagger, and performed by Mick Jagger. Freebase Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes
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