Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance… but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. writing for the Supreme Court in Northern Securities Co. v United States […]
Some hope for stem cell research
The quote below is from a CNN news article: (CNN) — For the first time, a patient has received a synthetic windpipe that was created in a lab with the patient’s own stem cells and without using human donor tissue, researchers said Thursday. Look carefully at the sentence. The stem cells were the patient’s own […]
For the Orthodox, Church history is family history
I was asked on another blog how much the Orthodox know about Church history. I posted the reply below: When I first read the question my reaction was to say that the Orthodox are extremely well versed in Church history and that it plays an important part in the life of our Church. But, upon […]
. . . difficult and left untried
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. … The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. — G.K. Chesterton, Part One: The Homelessness Of Man, Ch. 5 : The Unfinished Temple […]
Happy July 4, 2011
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. — A politician from the 1950’s. I like the quote above. It is a quote that could be applied to Christianity as well. Let me give you some thoughts. The Boston Tea Party was an emotional outburst of […]
When evil enters the Church
The story below is from the time of the Nestorian controversy. It gives us an idea of what can happen when evil men misuse the Church for their personal gain. But, it also gives the witness of a holy man standing up to that evil. Our Lord warned that there would be both wheat and […]
If this is how you treat your friends
La Santa Teresa de Ávila was reputed to have said: If this is how You treat Your friends, then it is no wonder You have so few of them. I was reminded of this by a quote I read on an Internetmonk post. The author of the quote below was going through a very difficult time […]
So you want all the answers
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 […]
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 […]
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