A not clearly relevant but very pretty photo for a blog entry on faith-related matters
(Rennett Stowe, Wikimedia CC)
A very insightful comment from a man who generated insights the way a Fourth of July sparkler generates sparks:
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. . . . As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. . . . The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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New, on the Interpreter Foundation website, for students and teachers in the Gospel Doctrine classes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
“KnoWhy OTL25A — Is There More to Psalm 23 Than Words of Solace and Comfort? An Old Testament KnoWhy relating to the reading assignment for Gospel Doctrine Lesson 25: “Let Every Thing That Hath Breath Praise the Lord” (Psalms) (JBOTL25A)
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In St. Louis:
“Gateway Arch Museum Opens with Exhibit Featuring Mormon History”
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Did you realize that these are published every week?
“Music and the Spoken Word: Resourcefulness and ingenuity”
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Here’s a striking reminiscence from a veteran journalist at the LDS Church News:
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Elder Holland in the United Kingdom, along with Sister Sharon Eubank and Elder Patrick Kearon:
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And here’s something to think about:
“Thinking politics, and pop culture, on July 4th in this today’s tense and wired America”
Posted from Newport Beach, California
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