Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Eight lies, or maybe ten (depending on how you count)

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"President Obama issued a statement today to mark the forty-first anniversary of Roe v. Wade . A mere paragraph long, it contains enoug...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

An average day

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Here's a sampling of the headlines from my local newspaper this morning. TWO CARS EXCHANGE GUNFIRE IN BELLE GLADE NEAR SCHOOL TH...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A case study in pro-gun extremism

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Love is a losing game

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Monday night while the rest of America was watching a thrilling BCS championship game I was up til the wee hours of the morning sufferin...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Hope for the New Year

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Are you optimistic or pessimistic going into 2014? Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Earlier today I posed this question to the lady tha...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Wisdom from Thomas Merton (sounding a little like Wendell Berry)

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Under the pretext that what is "within" is in fact real, spiritual, supernatural, etc., one cultivates neglect and contempt for...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Providence's "beautiful history"

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Once again, in returning to John Flavel I'm reminded of the value of reading the English Puritans. Giants of the faith like Flavel and...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Wendell Berry on the conservative revolutionaries

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The curious thing is that many agriculture specialists and "agri-businessmen" see themselves as conservatives. They look with con...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Giving and forgiving: the heart of Christianity

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A book that's been rocking my world is Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by the Croatian theologian...
Monday, October 14, 2013

An average weekend

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The Weekend Gun Report for October 11-13 makes for grim reading. But so did last weekend's report, and the one before that and the one ...