Since it’s the first day of Lent I thought it would be appropriate to highlight this stirring poem by Marjorie Maddox from the February 1996 issue of First Things . Ash Wednesda y Marjorie Maddox Fingernails scrubbed clean as latrines in the army, this symbol of a man dirties his thumb with . . . . Continue Reading »
At Wal-Mart’s 2005 annual meeting, Lee Scott, the company’s CEO, announced that since the they wanted to attract customers with lots of discretionary income they would be including more items like organic foods. If you have a difficult time with the concept of Wal-Mart customers having . . . . Continue Reading »
After reading Wesley’s post about the Penn biologist that that human free will is fiction, my first thought was, “Maybe Dr. Cashmore is a zombie.” It’s not as bizarre an assumption as you might think (actually it is as bizarre, just not in the way you imagine). The zombies . . . . Continue Reading »
The West and East count Lent differently. Lent for the West begins today, with Ash Wednesday. Lent is counted 40 days to Easter and Sunday’s during that period are not part of Lent. For the East, Lent began Monday, Sundays are counted and Lent ends on Friday before Lazarus Saturday (followed . . . . Continue Reading »
See today’s Spengler column in Asia Times Online. Some extracts:The fact that Ha’aretz, Israel’s left-leaning daily, found it necessary on February 17 to warn the Benjamin Netanyahu government not to attack Iran [1] strongly suggests that the option is on the table.It seems clear . . . . Continue Reading »
Joel 2:12–192 Peter 1:2–11Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21Return to the Lord Your God with All Your HeartWith Jesus, we set our face toward Jerusalem. We make our pilgrimage with Him by the way of repentance, and thus return to the dying and rising of Holy Baptism. Each day He summons you to . . . . Continue Reading »
It is astonishing to me the fervor with which some in the life sciences seek to dismantle the very concept of human freedom. The latest example comes from Penn biologist Anthony R. Cashmore in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , in an article in which he claims that human free . . . . Continue Reading »
It is astonishing to me the fervor with which some in the life sciences seek to dismantle the very concept of human freedom. If they have their way, we will go from, “The devil made me do it,” to perhaps, “My genes made me do it,” or, “My genes as mediated by my . . . . Continue Reading »
HSUS—Humane Society of the United States—is an interesting organization, what I call a “stealth” animal rights group. Unlike PETA, it doesn’t pitch the animal rights dogma of human/animal moral equality, nor does it explicitly call for an end to all animal . . . . Continue Reading »
Lord Acton famously wrote that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” a statement frequently quoted and all too often accepted at face value. Mark Earley’s modification is an improvement:But remember this: power corrupts, but power itself is not . . . . Continue Reading »
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