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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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