Glacier National Park and environs are proof of God. The beauty and vastness is a true wonder. Here are a few shots I took for your hoped for enjoyment:Cho was a great horse:The mirror quality of the lakes took your breath awayThe turquoise of the water comes from glacier action11:00 PM . . . . Continue Reading »
Bad Church Art at The CrescatYeesh. And I’m not one to point fingers, either, because my own parish church, though I love it dearly, looks like a prefab office plaza dropped from a helicopter into the middle of a pasture. The Angel of the Perpendicular Style passed it right on over, and then . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days before the appearance of the encyclical Caritas in Veritate, the following news item appeared:July 3 (Bloomberg) — Developing countries’ share of worldwide equity value climbed to a record as the fastest- growing economies lured investors amid the first global recession since . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . did not go to the beach. Instead, I googled the phrase religious beach, and here are some of the things the search turned up: Dollar-Stretching Luau Deals like this inflatable beach ball. They didn’t have a picture of the un-inflatable kind. Information regarding religious beaches in Tel . . . . Continue Reading »
While working on a recording together, Johnny Cash asked Bob Dylan if he knew “Ring of Fire.” Dylan said he did and began to play it on the piano, croaking it out in typical Dylanesque fashion. When he was done he turned to his friend and said, “It goes something like that, . . . . Continue Reading »
What could be the setup for a lame joke turns out to be the setup for a lame reality show in Turkey . Penitents Compete , scheduled to launch in September, includes select religious leaders seeking to convert a group of ten atheists to their respective faiths. The winning religious leaders get to . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s see, let’s see . . . Nothing says Lift Tie the Cross quite like this, which actually lifts it twice, just to be sure. In these troubled economic times, more and more institutions of higher learning are forced to cut costs any way they can: salary reductions, heavier teaching loads, . . . . Continue Reading »
Some men face their aging with equanimity, fortitude, and grace. The rest of us whimper, rail, and whine. A friend recently brought over his new Brazilian rosewood guitar—his fourteenth guitar, so many that he has begun hiding them from his wife. But I have chosen the road more traveled by, . . . . Continue Reading »
In an amusing post that pokes fun at both Twitter and applied moral philosophy, James Anderson offers eighteen arguments ” Against All Tweets .” As an Aristotelian-Augustianian-Plantingan advocate of natural law, I was persuaded by a number of his conditional proofs. But being . . . . Continue Reading »
Fresh from the pages of Sports Illustrated , here’s a list of the top ten high-school athletic programs in the nation: 1. Non-denominational Christian (of Congregationalist origin): Punahou School in Hawaii 2. Catholic (Jesuit): Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon 3. Catholic (diocesan): . . . . Continue Reading »
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