There the 8 year old flipped and tumbled and fell – gymnasts don’t come from tall peasant stock like ours – but she got up to try it again. I had just limped my way up the sidewalk. My calf pulled in the latest reminder that my jumping days were past. And in the midst . . . → Read More: Thoughts on Observing Courage
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Here is David Brooks echoing our Thursday Morning Bible Study. I said something like “I never really had that much of a problem with evil, I believe in original sin.” Here is Mr. Brook’s explaining it in light of SSGT. Bales. And catch the last paragraph. That daily struggle, think the series on Spiritual Practices. . . . → Read More: The Problem of Evil, or Not… Link to Edward Oakes, S.J. – The Zeal Christ Requires. This is a quote from the middle of the article that gets at the key points… But bishops were under no psychological compulsion to move abusive priests from parish to parish, from therapist to therapist. Yet they did; and I cannot help but think they . . . → Read More: What I tried to say Sunday…but better. I’m reminded of the children’s song, “the wise man built his house upon the rock…the foolish man built his house upon the sand.” The wise woman: Simcha Fisher. She gets and responds to one of those really hard letters. And note what her first disclaimer is -”Here is what I is what I think (and . . . → Read More: Three items of note This site pulls up random Luther insults. (If you can take the language it is quite funny.) It is interesting to me how so many public men seem to have two sides (cross reference the outpouring about Andrew Breitbart this week). People that know them personally would throw themselves in front of cars to save . . . → Read More: Get Insulted by Luther Toff that I am PBS Masterpiece has been on my DVR list for a long time. So having something like Downton Abbey come along was something new. I now had someone else watching with me. I had to endure a gentle ribbing from the Parson’s Wife for my Soap Opera and Chick-Flick attachment. I’m . . . → Read More: Grace and the Television The headline of this WSJ article…In Vitro a Fertile Niche for Lenders Julie Barth’s prayers were answered when a doctor in Crystal Lake, Ill., told her in vitro fertilization might get her pregnant. But he didn’t stop there, referring her to a “fertility finance” company that lent her $5,000 at an interest rate of 7.99% . . . → Read More: Financing Little Johnny…when does Rumplestilskin show up? 1) Lest anyone thinks I might have been harsh in my Ash Wednesday sermon drawing analogies with the national debt and the plague of locusts in Joel. (Joel said that God was at the front of that plague. The plague was a mirror to the spiritual state of the people. Is our debt a mirror?) . . . → Read More: Paragraphs to Make You Think Text: Joel 2:12-19 Joel is one of the 12 short little books at the end of the Old Testament. 12 so called minor prophets. And we don’t really know when he wrote. The best guess is that he is early. He is the 2nd of the 12 short prophets which are thought to be . . . → Read More: Ash Wednesday Meditation Parson’s wife and kids are out of the house for the week leaving after church today. That gives me way to much time to get into trouble (instead of using the time keeping the kids out of trouble). First comment of trouble: Rick Santorum is too theologically literate to be elected president. And the . . . → Read More: More Moral Dumbfounding |
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