Have you written about the CC’s teachings on Social Justice? My daughter teaches first grade in Harlem. Many of her students are products of single parent, welfare culture and live in nearby shelters. How do we provide a safety net without encouraging fathers to abandon their family? I’m 64 and a nurse. When I was a student nurse and doing my outpatient affiliation at Boston City Hospital in the early sixties, one of the head nurses commented that AFDC would... Read more

Have you written about the CC’s teachings on Social Justice? My daughter teaches first grade in Harlem. Many of her students are products of single parent, welfare culture and live in nearby shelters. How do we provide a safety net without encouraging fathers to abandon their family? I’m 64 and a nurse. When I was a student nurse and doing my outpatient affiliation at Boston City Hospital in the early sixties, one of the head nurses commented that AFDC would... Read more

Today, I posted a little piece over at the Register on the spiritual cancer of hoping for the worst in somebody. Today, Al Kresta (no enthusiast for Obama) points to a rather grotesque illustration of what he calls the “unbelievable hypocrisy” from Gretchen Carlson: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Day 58 – The Strife Aquatic www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Christians who adopt “damn them no matter what” tactics... Read more

Today, I posted a little piece over at the Register on the spiritual cancer of hoping for the worst in somebody. Today, Al Kresta (no enthusiast for Obama) points to a rather grotesque illustration of what he calls the “unbelievable hypocrisy” from Gretchen Carlson: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Day 58 – The Strife Aquatic www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Christians who adopt “damn them no matter what” tactics... Read more

Today, I command you to check out this clip from “Saturday Night Fry”, a radio program done for the Beeb back in the 80s featuring the very young Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Jim Broadbent, all before they were Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Jim Broadbent. What I find particularly amusing is that Hugh Laurie hasn’t *quite* mastered his American accent yet. Read more

…closer than you’d think. Read more

A reader writes: South Carolina’s number one newspaper has offered a helpful theological fact to assist its readers: Haley and one of her brothers converted to Christianity as adults; her parents and two other siblings are Sikhs…. Still, some voters were confused by Haley’s campaign Web site, thinking she may be both Sikh and Methodist and were unclear which “Almighty God” Haley was referencing on the site. (Sikhs, like Christians, believe in one omnipotent God, but not the same God.)... Read more

A reader writes: A single mother and her now adult son, who we have known for many years, are in some deep trouble: About a year ago, mom stopped taking the psych meds she needs to stay even marginally functional and become a meth addict, son has not been able to do anything with his life except enable his mom’s often bizarre behavior. Now, after wasting her life savings away, they are homeless. They have burned through the good will... Read more

A reader writes: A single mother and her now adult son, who we have known for many years, are in some deep trouble: About a year ago, mom stopped taking the psych meds she needs to stay even marginally functional and become a meth addict, son has not been able to do anything with his life except enable his mom’s often bizarre behavior. Now, after wasting her life savings away, they are homeless. They have burned through the good will... Read more

making Dan Brown look like Tolstoy. Though a ghost-written novel that re-circulates a story written by your ghost writer is not exactly the same as “writing a novel”. I’ve done a bit of ghost-writing. You can do it in order to try to capture the minds and heart of somebody who just can’t get things down in writing very well due to busyness or lack of skill with a pen. Or you can do it because the guy you are... Read more