The following quote is from Brendan Manning’s book Ruthless Trust. The quote comes from another website where I read it and was struck by it: When the brilliant ethicist John Kavanaugh went to work for three months at “the house of the dying” in Calcutta, he was seeking a clear answer as to how best […]
Archives for June 2011
Jon Stewart, Fox News, victimization and Christians
Recently there has been a strong debate going on between Jon Stewart, of The Daily Show, and Fox News. His frustration can be summarized by quoting his own words: Any editorial judgment in news, or schools, or movies, that doesn’t favor the conservative view, is elitism and is evidence of liberal bias. Whereas any editorial […]
An odd Irish WWII story from the BBC
The quotes below come from a history story on the BBC. There is no particular Christian point to the story. Just read it and enjoy it. I recommend going to read the full story on the website. In Northern Ireland in 1941, a routine Sunday afternoon sortie by a pilot flying one of Britain’s Spitfire […]
What is wrong with this picture of the New World?
The picture on your right comes from the Trafficking in Persons report for the USA Department of State. This was a report that began to be published the first year of President George W. Bush’s first term in office. Because of the outbreak of war, it was lost that both President and Mrs. Bush (but […]
The problems of verifying research — part two
Yesterday I posted an article beginning the deconstruction of one of my posts from 21 May. That article had been on the Rapture and claimed that the Rapture pre-dated the Dispensationalists and that, in fact, it had been begun as a Jesuit post. The article itself was a port–with permission–from another website. One of my […]
The problems of verifying research — on the Rapture
[Ed. Note: I have decided to remove identifying information as to where my original post in May came from, as a variation of my 21 May reposting can be found online at various sites.] Back on 21 May, I published a post on the origins of the Rapture doctrine, given that the Rapture predicted by […]
Senseless economic cuts
The daughter of friends of Father Orthoduck and his wife has a summer internship at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), which is quite an honor. She returns to college this fall after a summer of experiencing the crazy world of political Washington, DC. AEI is one of the top five think […]
Canons and phronema
I have before written on the subject of phronema as it relates to mission. There I pointed out that phronema can have both a positive and a negative meaning. You can read the post and find out that the word is used in Greek in two senses. In that post I quoted another article which […]
The most God-believing nation in Europe and Asia
A person commented on my Tolstoy post by sending me a link from an article in the Christian Science Monitor called, How Russians survived militant atheism to embrace God. It is an article worth reading in its entirety. Below are a few quotes from the article: Sometimes really huge news stories occur that receive almost […]
Tolstoy on war
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. — Leo Tolstoy Someone […]
