Religion
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An Unexpected Vision The past couple of weeks have been difficult at work, due to the departure of someone who not only was responsible for a lot of things that I don’t know much about but who will probably be impossible to replace. I should be working nights and weekends to try to compensate for…
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I'm going to do my best to stay completely off the net from now (Thursday evening) till Sunday. I wish and pray for a blessed Easter for everyone, especially those who don't believe. I would like to leave you with some serious message, if only a quotation from someone else, but I'm distracted and hurried halfway…
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Fifty Shades of Grey This is depressing: it seems that there is a pornographic novel called Fifty Shades of Grey which is extremely popular among women, and that its plot involves a young woman who gives herself as a masochistic sex slave to a billionaire. Here is one of several commentaries on it which I’ve…
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on the fundamentals.
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She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. –Flannery O'Connor
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David Horowitz: A Point In Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next The only reason I was not surprised that this book came from the hand of David Horowitz was that I had read his Radical Son, and already gotten over my surprise that such a ferocious political combatant would write…
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"The kingdom of God is within you." This saying shows, I believe, that the goodness of God is not separated from our nature, or far away from those who seek it, but it is ever present in each individual, unknown, and forgotten when one is choked by the cares and pleasures of life, but discovered…
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From his weekly audience today: To hear God’s word requires the cultivation of outward and inward silence, so that His voice can resound within our hearts and shape our lives… Silence has the capacity to open a space in our inner being, a space in which God can dwell… In our prayers we often find…
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A Little GKC Chief among my complaints last week about the treatment of Chesterton by Christopher Hitchens was the fact that he passed over Chesterton’s spiritual vision while in the end dismissing him for certain of his political views. I wanted then to describe or summarize that vision, by way of justifying the importance I…
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Faith is not a thing of the mind; it is not an intellectual certainty or a felt conviction in the heart. It is a sustained decision to take God with utter seriousness as the God of my life…. Often it may seem as if we only act "as if," so unaffected are our hearts, perhaps…
Light On Dark Water 