Thanks to Colin Cutler for alerting me to this recording of Flannery O’Connor reading one of her signature stories. WARNING: O’Connor is one of the pre-eminent Christian fiction writers of the past century, but she is not for the faint of heart. After the jump,
Brutal bullying. Murder charges. Rape. Suicides. Scrambled brains. Just another week in the NFL. Pulitzer Prize winning sportswriter Thomas Boswell loves professional football, but he is dismayed at what the NFL has seemingly become. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Of course the game creates a
Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic hierarchy are reportedly re-considering the practice of denying Communion to Catholics who have divorced and remarried. Details after the jump. Notice in the church debates over the issue how we can see Rome’s teaching that the Sacrament is for
My daughter, Deaconness Mary Moerbe, has just published a children’s book on vocation! Luther was insistent that being a child is a vocation, that even very young children have callings from God. This book shows kids how God serves them through other people (especially their
You know about speed dating. A man and a woman sit down together for 3-8 minutes (depending on how it’s set up) to see if they hit it off, then move to a new table for 3-8 minutes with someone else. Now there is speedfaithing,
Columnist Dana Milbank is a liberal supporter of Obamacare. But he gives more details about the current roll-out debacle. He goes so far as to make comparisons between Obama’s handling of his health care program and his predecessor’s handling of the Iraq war. (more…)
Virginians elected Democratic operative Terry McAuliffe, even though he had never held elective office, supports gun control, champions same-sex marriage, and is militantly pro-abortion. The once-reliably Republican state picked him over the socially-conservative attorney general Ken Cuccinelli. My prediction: Terry McAuliffe, whose career has been
William Peter Blatty is the author of The Exorcist, a novel about demonic possession. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie version, which is considered one of the scariest films of all time. It turns out the former Hollywood comedy writer penned the novel
American foreign policy is in the toilet, with our adversaries not respecting us and our allies not trusting us. Pundits here and abroad have been proclaiming the end of America’s global dominance. And yet, if you factor out our government’s ineptitude, the United States has
Today is election day. Mostly up for grabs are local and state races. Voting has been called a “civic sacrament.” The analogy is an imperfect one, and it applies only to democratic systems. Some say that voting “doesn’t do any good,” which even if it
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