After seeing the video “Passion of the Copts” all I could think was Lord have mercy. This hauntingly beautiful rendition of the Kyrie Eleison and the equally beautiful Gospodi Pomiluj below it are for them and for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ everywhere. Kyrie Eleison – Zurgo – Navratil Andrea  Gospodi Pomiluj Read more
The Washington Post seems to love the guy. He is, after all, a “Christian” after their own heart. Rev Gary Hall, the new Dean of Washington National Cathedral believes that teaching people to wait for marriage to have sex is “unrealistic.” He isn’t too keen on the idea of life-long commitment or fidelity in marriage, either. But he’s in the bag for gay marriage and has personally assured Dr Richard Dawkins that he also “doesn’t believe in the God” that... Read more
Deacon Greg Kandra had the story of churches that were vandalized in Brooklyn this week. The police have already arrested a suspect and charged him with a hate crime. That is exactly the right charge. The increasingly widespread vandalizing of churches is indeed a hate crime. Where is this rise of hatred directed at people of faith in general and Christians in particular coming from? I believe it is inspired by the virulent anti-Christian ethos in our halls of higher... Read more
What kind of “men” kidnap young girls as a means of waging a “holy” war? The video below is difficult to watch, but then the reality of what is happening to Christians in Egypt and elsewhere is far more difficult. The practice of kidnapping Christian girls, raping them and forcing them to “convert” to Islam appears to be widespread throughout the Middle East. There’s not much to say about men who do cowardly things like this to women and young... Read more
Boko Haram has killed at least 1600 people in Northern Nigeria since 2010. It’s a repetitive story of bombings, mass shootings and knife attacks, much of it centered on the northern city of Kano. I used to know people who lived in Kano and I’ve heard their stories of atrocities against the Christians there. This business of killing Christians in Kano precedes Boko Haram. LIke all forms of persecution, it gets and has gotten worse over time. A couple of... Read more
Anthropologists keep trying to come up with a definition of human beings that applies to something about us that is totally, absolutely unique. We are the toolmakers, they said. Then, Jane Goodall discovered that chimps poke sticks into termite holes to pull them out and eat them. We have language. That was a poor choice from the start, since anyone who’s been around animals knows they have a sort of language of their own. So what about us is unique?... Read more
Everybody I know is hissing and spitting, carping and griping at one another. I got out of the dentist’s office today (broke a tooth) and found a snotty text from a family member on my iPhone. Instead of shrugging it off, or, as the Scriptures suggest, giving a soft answer, I called them up and was snotty back. It’s as if every person I’ve talked to in the past couple of days has been like an angry wasp looking for... Read more
Tired of Congressional gridlock? So long as partisan ambitions to get and keep power outweigh concerns for the good of this country and its people, there is no end in sight. We might as well laugh. This just in from The Onion: Congress Fiercely Divided Over Completely Blank Bill That Says And Does Nothing  Jul 25, 2013 Congressional leaders in both parties have failed to find common ground on the completely text-free bill. WASHINGTON—A blank piece of legislation that says... Read more
I am tempted to say that Dr Richard Dawkins is the Westboro Baptist Church of the atheists. But I won’t. The reason? The only thing Dr Dawkins has in common with the much ballyhooed and massively exaggerated Westboro Baptist Church is that they both specialize in attacking the sensibilities of other people in order to gain fame for themselves. The similarities pretty much end there. Dr Dawkins writes best-selling books that evidently convince a lot of people to pull their... Read more
 “Remember the ladies.” Abigail Adams to her husband John Abigail Adams spoke up for women at America’s founding. “Remember the ladies,” she wrote her husband, John Adams. “Be more generous to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of your husbands.” Unfortunately, John didn’t listen to his wife, such notions being “too radical” for a nation founded on the equality of all men. About a hundred years later, the men of that time... Read more
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