When pondering the nativity, I’ve heard much made of the fact that the manger is a place of great humility for the King of Kings to be found, and rightly so. I’ve seldom given much thought, however, to what the manger was —- a feeding place for animals.There’s little evidence . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a Christmas tradition in many homes to read the Christmas story before the festivities begin, which is of course a good thing. Most of us open up Luke 2, read down to through the Shepherds, pray a brief prayer, and then we begin with the wrapping paper and the mixture of joy and . . . . Continue Reading »
More people unclear on that whole ” Thou Shalt Not Steal” concept : With the recession, shoplifting is on the rise, according to booksellers. At BookPeople in Austin, Tex., the rate of theft has increased to approximately one book per hour. I asked Steve Bercu, BookPeople’s owner, . . . . Continue Reading »
With some of the discussion regarding the gospel, I wanted to point out a recent post by Mark Jones titled “The Gospel and Sanctification.” Mark did his doctoral work on the Puritan Thomas Goodwin, so some of the essay references Goodwin’s work regarding the nature of the gospel. . . . . Continue Reading »
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.” John 1:1,2. Following Edith Stein in her discussion of Essential and Eternal Being we see that all “meaningful” existents are enclosed by the “divine . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was at a local Christmas party last night. There I met a most admirable young man with six beautiful and happy children and a seventh on the way. He makes his leaving as a boutique metal worker (cupolas and such), and he’s obviously a fine craftsman and an able entrepreneur. Not only . . . . Continue Reading »
I will not let it go. I have a piece on The Church Report about how the Rom Houben “awakening” brought Terri Schiavo powerfully back to minds and hearts. I won’t belabor most of the points again here, since we have talked about it a lot. But I will leave you with . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t let the headline fool you: I am not against evidence based medicine when it is used as a guide for doctors to provide optimal individualized care. But I am against using EBM as a method of establishing categories for health care rationing—whether of “what” or . . . . Continue Reading »
“They think I shouldn’t be expressing my views on this bill until they get a chance to try to sell me the language,” Congressman Stupak said yesterday in an interview . Somehow that verb, sell , seems appropriate when speaking about the monstrosity of the Senate’s version of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ambassador Douglas Kmiec—the Catholic law professor who parlayed his campaign book in support of Obama into an ambassadorship to Malta—has signed a statement of “Christian Leaders” in support of the abortion provisions in the Senate’s health-care bill. Of this, Ed Whelan . . . . Continue Reading »
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