George Herbert: Lent Welcome dear feast of Lent: who loves not thee, He loves not Temperance, or Authority, But is composed of passion. The Scriptures bid us fast; the Church says, now: Give to your Mother, what you would allow To every Corporation. It
Isn’t that a powerfully comforting concept articulated in the classic Ash Wednesday Collect that God hates nothing that He has made? And doesn’t it have wide-ranging implications for our attitude towards the world?
Bolivia’s new draft constitution would allow its tribes to enact communal justice; that is, punishments ruled by tribal elders or, more commonly, by the people themselves. The penalties could not be appealed through the court system. Indeed, any appeal would be too late, since communal
Rush Limbaugh will join Ann Coulter on the Democratic bandwagon if John McCain gets the Republican nomination. That’s right. As McCain’s nomination gets ever more likely, Rush will agitate for the Democrats .That ALONE is nearly reason enough to vote for McCain, the spectacle of
So far, by current count, Romney has emerged from Super Tuesday with Massachusetts and Utah, with Huckabee taking much of the South and McCain taking just about everything else. (The results from the Western states, including California, the big prize, aren’t in yet, so maybe
Another Super Tuesday post, picking up on the theme of the one below. . . Does this guy make sense in arguing that conservatives should support even an ideologically-imperfect candidate rather than going over to the Democrats, voting for a third-party candidate, or sulking and
So Ann Coulter is saying thatshe would campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain gets the GOP nomination. Surely that’s one of her famous grand overstatements. But just as the Left is plagued with what has been termed “Bush Derangement Syndrome”–defined as an irrational, over-reacting
Microsoft once ruled as the computer leviathan that everyone loved to hate, yet utterly depended on. But now in the high-tech world the computing power of individual computers has become secondary to online computing. Now the leviathan is Google, which not only invented the search
We haven’t heard from him for awhile. I hope he is OK.
The Epistle reading for Transfiguration Day yesterday is quite remarkable, an account from St. Peter himself about his having witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels: For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power
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