I was drafted toward the end of Vietnam. I was in the barracks on 23 January 1973 when President Richard Nixon made his peace with honor speech about the coming end of the Vietnam War. Within two years South Vietnam had fallen. In April of 1975, the famous photo was published of the Huey helicopter […]
A simplified manga view of the current economic arguments
As many of you know, I am a fan of manga from the Far East countries. It is always interesting to read stories written from a different cultural and religious viewpoint. As these are manga, they are not trying to win converts nor make philosophical arguments. Rather, they are trying to present a readable story […]
Native American folk tale
My grandfathers told me this story when I was a boy, so it must be true. In the Before Times, this world was covered in darkness, and all the Peoples of this world kept getting hurt because they bumped into each other in the dark. Fox, who had been everywhere, looking and spying with his […]
The danger of changing understandings
Indeed, one lesson of history is that religious beliefs evolve in response to changing cultural attitudes. The transformation, in part, reflects altered interpretations of scripture and tradition. Some Faith Leaders Call Equality Act Devastating; For Others, It’s God’s Will, 10 March 2021 The quote above is from an article in an NPR story about The […]
Telling God what he already knows
Am I bothering You too much? I’m sorry. As the good book says… aaahh, why should I tell You what the Good Book says? Tevye speaking, Fiddler on the Roof, film, 1971 Tevye, in the movie, had the right of it, “why should I tell You what the Good Book says?’ I can remember in my younger […]
The last warrior standing wins
A brother asked Abba Sisoes, ‘What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?’ The old man said to him, ‘Get up again.’ The brother said, ‘I have got up again, but I have fallen again.’ The old man said, ‘Get up again and again.’ So then the brother said, ‘How many times?’ The old […]
Excess is not the same as holiness
There is an old saying: “Excesses meet.” Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as … sluggishness… Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by […]
Who are we really?
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? During […]
I am not as tolerant as I would like to be
As with many people in the USA, I like to think of myself as a person who responds graciously to others. My self-image of a priest may be based more on old Bing Crosby movies in which he played a priest than in the reality I experience. My behavior is certainly not as based on […]
Another abortion anniversary 2021
Forty-eight years ago the Roe v Wade decision was handed down by the Supreme Court. Another anniversary has come. Most people do not realize that the State of Texas did not forbid all abortions back then, it only forbade elective abortions. Therapeutic abortions were permitted, as life-threatening complications, such as an ectopic pregnancy could arise. […]
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