I just watched the opening of the USA Embassy in Jerusalem. It is a move with which I agree. I am not the only socially progressive person to also agree. I listened with interest to a Congressman who is a Bernie Sanders backer who also agreed with the move. I know that the USA has […]

The Opposite of War is Not Peace — What the Orthodox Byzantines retained was an older Greek notion that war inevitably damages the soul. Even in a just cause, in self-defense or to protect innocents, participation in war still harms the soul in some measure. And so I came to the realization that the Byzantine […]

 For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is […]

“The birth of Isaac was, of course, an absolute absurdity. The notion that a 100-year-old man and his 90-year-old wife, who have never had a child in the course of their long married life, should bear a son, and to place the hopes of the whole future of mankind on this child! According to all […]

The video above made me laugh quite a lot. Though there is some exaggeration, in that Jesus is unlikely to have been black, nevertheless, it is true that Jesus’ skin color would not have been northern European white. In 2015, a forensic anthropologist, named Richard Neave, reconstructed a possible typical Semitic face of the time […]

101. The other harmful ideological error is found in those who find suspect the social engagement of others, seeing it as superficial, worldly, secular, materialist, communist or populist. Or they relativize it, as if there are other more important matters, or the only thing that counts is one particular ethical issue or cause that they […]

One of the little known episodes of the life of Saint Francis of Assisi is that he participated in war before he received his calling. He had romantic dreams of being a knight. History records that he sang like a troubadour and liked drinking and partying. It is reported that he had an eye for […]

I know that it is probable that many of you are excited by the possible firing of McCabe by Sessions just three days before his retirement. By doing this, Sessions could ensure that McCabe loses his retirement pension. The firing has been recommended by the Office for the Inspector General. But, that would be a […]

It is said that no child should die before their parents do: “No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things. I buried my son. In a potter’s field. In a […]