Philosophy
My New Year’s Resolution: Be Like Billy Graham
What? Oh, you thought…hahaha! You imagined crusades, dynamic preaching, and conferences with heads of state. No, no. I haven’t visions of preaching to millions nor delusions of grandeur (most of the time). I just read a little book over the Christmas holiday and knew I’d found what I wanted to... »
Making Sarah Palin Look Dumb
It’s too bad that disingenuity, self-interest, and lack of interest in “the facts” seem to drive the political machine. From the AtlanticWire’s “breakdown” of Sarah Palin’s O’Reilly Factor interview November 19, 2009, rebroadcast late December: Palin on Reading O’REILLY: Couric asked you an easy question [about what magazines or newspapers... »
Follow-up on Brit Hume on Tiger Woods (links)
Some noteworthy commentary by other Christian bloggers: In Secularism and Brit Hume, Hunter Baker @First Things’ Evangel links to Big Hollywood’s Adam Baldwin, who quotes Baker on secularism: “…a radical concept that involves the privatization of religious belief: when we are together in the public square, if we are ‘virtuous and civil’ then we will... »
Brit Hume on Tiger and (Me on) Tolerance
As is now common knowledge, Fox News’ Brit Hume has suggested Tiger Woods convert to the Christian faith, as his best bet for full “transgression” recovery and perhaps even greater role-model-dom than before. Bravo, Mr. Hume. Unfortunately, his words have not been met with the same spirit in which they were offered.... »
Finding the Center: Ecumenism and the Manhattan Declaration
It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of... »
Tiger Woods: Did the culture make him do it?
Nuts if I can find where I read comments to the effect that our current hyper-sexualized culture is partly to blame for Woods’ recently-revealed “transgressions;” otherwise I would link to it. That culture and Tiger’s position in it helped facilitate his many alleged infidelities can’t be denied, nor can the fact that ubiquitous sexual... »
“The Christmas List”
But the thing is that now that I really do want to make things better, there’s nothing I can do. Maybe this is hell, seeing the truth. Knowing fully the pain and hurt you’ve caused others and knowing there’s no way you can make it better. I’ve stolen their lives and... »
The Manhattan Declaration
Not just any pro-life, pro-family, pro-ethics statement, the Manhattan Declaration is a call to civil disobedience if (when) the government legislates that people of conscience support abortion, eugenics, and same-sex marriages in their professions and with their tax dollars. The last paragraph of the declaration states: “Because we honor justice and the common good, we will... »
Post-Civil-War Reflection on American Women: Education, Companionship, Housekeeping, and Pie
The following excerpt is from The Human Side of American History; ed. Richard C. Brown, late Professor Emeritus of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY; from the 6th printing, 1968 by Ginn and Company, now part of Pearson PLC of London. The book appears to be out of... »
