My gut feeling on this election all along was that we simply could not have Mrs. Clinton as president. She was incompetent, fudged the truth, thought religion must conform to the rules of the state […]
A lot of bad things happen in a world that has lost God. One is the disappearance of the rational freedom that is the natural setting for faith, science, morality, and pursuit of the common […]
Several days ago I received an email from the Wall Street Journal asking my opinion of the reported accord about to take place between Pope Francis and Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist […]
Dawn Eden Goldstein is a theologian who rocks. Not only has she written many excellent, helpful books. She has also written a pop song, “Girl on the Northern Line,” which has been recorded by The […]
Many of the folks I know tell me that they cannot vote for either candidate in November. Powerful reasons are given about why each candidate would be a disaster in the White House. Since we […]
What’s bad about normalizing homosexuality and other forms of sexual nonconformity? If a woman becomes sexually involved with another woman, or redefines herself as a man, how does it harm anyone else? Why not just […]
“The world’s six wealthiest countries (the USA, China, Japan, Germany, France, and the UK) have received less than nine percent of the 65 million people fleeing to escape war and poverty.” — L’Osservatore Romano (English, August 26, […]
I noted last month that personal and social identity is a problem for people today. No one seems sure where it comes from, what it’s for, or what difference it should make. The natural attitude, it seems, […]
I. Our political rhetoric is no longer formed in terms of virtue and vice but in terms of “rights”. A virtue requires that we take a careful look at ourselves. We intuitively see that we […]
“It’s like a fruitcake, there’s a little bit of everything; there are violent people in these religions. One thing is true; I believe that in almost all religions there always a small fundamentalist group.” — […]
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