Saturday, October 19, 2013

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Christ alone--of all the philosophers, Magi, etc.--has affirmed, as a principal certainty, eternal life, the infinity of time, the nothingne...
Friday, October 18, 2013

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"David Niven told the engrossing story (I had never heard it) of a single episode in the chaotic flight from France after Dunkirk in...
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

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Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And t...
Monday, September 23, 2013

something beautiful

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Friday, September 6, 2013

My Church History

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I was always aware of plural marriage and I knew that Joseph had practised it. But when I first began to study the details, it was by wa...
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Into my heart an air that   kills      From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills,      Wha...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

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In his classic book Leisure: The Basis of Culture , philosopher Josef Pieper notes that “leisure in Greek is skole , and in Latin scola ,...
Monday, July 1, 2013

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On subjects of which we know nothing, we both believe and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dicki...
Monday, June 24, 2013

But Then It Was Too Late

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"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of p...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

On Doing the Right Thing

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“When faced with the prospect that we might have to give up some sin we have come to cherish dearly, we often say something like ‘I would ra...
Friday, June 7, 2013

On Doing the Right Thing

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Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to prison, a poor, scared little brat, who had intended something no...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Kofa Mt., Arizona

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembran...
Monday, April 15, 2013

One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop

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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lo...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Primer on Mormon Prayer, by Adam Miller

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A religious life is a life of prayer. Don’t skimp on this or, no matter how white your sepulcher, your insides will always just be full of d...
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met t' know ya

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Consider, for example, the Jewish aristocrat and historian Josephus… who was sent, in AD 66, as a young army commander, to sort out some r...
Monday, April 1, 2013

hey, like, whatever

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Life narratives provide a bridge between developing adolescent self and an adult political identity. Here, for example, is how Keith Rich...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

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  I Jesus is condemned to death The very air that Pilate breathes, the voice With which he speaks in judgment, all his powers O...

"Halfway to poetry"

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So wrote C.S. Lewis when describing “sentences that stick to the mind” from the prose of William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536). What were thes...

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Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy;...

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But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

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What kind of explanation of the development of these organisms, even one that includes evolutionary theory, could account for the appearan...

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Consider a story from the life of D.L. Moody. As a fatherless boy raised in rural poverty, he was once sent several miles from home to wor...

Happiness

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There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squande...
Monday, March 4, 2013

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The loveliest argument I know against unbelief was made by a woman whose name I have forgotten, quoted by the theologian John Baillie in O...

For Pietr

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To Linnell on her Birthday

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The Blue Robe      By Wendell Berry How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river lon...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

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Friday, February 22, 2013

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[If we are] enlightened by the Spirit of truth, we will then be able to pray for the increased ability to endure truth and not to be made ...
Friday, February 8, 2013

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 "I'll take impersonal market forces over personal government force any day." --Sheldon Richman
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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"Suffering Servant" by Marcella Paliekara
Monday, January 21, 2013

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Several years ago in a large city in the far West, rumors spread that a certain Catholic woman was having visions of Jesus. The reporters ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

thought experiment

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Would you select a small group of people who like ordering other people around, give them all the weapons, take all the weapons from everybo...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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Recently the constitutionalist writer William Norman Grigg mentioned his opposition to the “narcotics price support program" sometimes ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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Even in the more obvious of fraudulent past elections there was at least an attempt by the establishment to present a pageant of conflicting...
Friday, November 2, 2012

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of ...

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Ninety-five years ago tomorrow, on November 2, 1917, British imperialism in Palestine began when Lord Balfour, the then British foreign secr...

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“The meaning of life is not a solution to a problem, but a matter of living in a certain way. It is not metaphysical, but ethical. It is not...
Monday, October 15, 2012

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Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand ar...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Thomas Szasz RIP

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Some good quotes from the good doctor: *People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend on them. Since they cannot do that...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

can't have no scissorhands around here

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The high-school Mitt Romney who, it is alleged, helped to forcibly restrain and cut the hair of a classmate must be distinguished from the m...
Monday, May 14, 2012

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Friday, May 4, 2012

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For some years I have been haunted by a story of [writer William Dean]Howells and that most civilized of all our presidents, James A. Garfi...

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Economist Joan Robinson (1903–1983) wrote, “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of readymade answers to economic quest...

sins of the mothers

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Anecdote about Tennessee Williams, courtesy of Gore Vidal Of a dinner with Williams and his magnificently termagant mother: Tennessee c...
Monday, April 30, 2012

You cannot know a politician's heart

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[Let us not forget] that deceit is the basis of all politics. I remember before the Gulf War, I was talking to a Baptist seminarian who coul...

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One of the most famous social science experiments is Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority studies at Yale. Subjects were asked to ad...
Monday, February 20, 2012

academy award time!--two nominees

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I wa...
Friday, February 3, 2012

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To field a ground ball must be considered a generous act and an act of comprehension. One moves not against the ball but with it. Bad fielde...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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I am trying to restrain my contempt for people claiming to be religious who are perfectly prepared to turn the country over to another warmo...