From Fox News yesterday: Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life sentence by a judge who told the teenager he […]
In a tragedy, heroes
The thing about human-caused tragedies is that in every tragedy there are heroes, the people who step forward and go beyond what is expected of them. They are like the leaven that reminds us that even when humans are at their worst, yet there are always at least a few humans who show us by […]
Grandchild spoiling
My posting will be sparse from today through this weekend. I am out of town and engaging in the ago-old art of grandchild spoiling. It is a solemn duty that involves too much chocolate, sugar, and unneeded presents.
Who is crazier, the inmate or the judge?
Nov 4, 6:30 AM EST Judge: Mich. man can sue store he robbed MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he’d just robbed can sue the men. But only if he comes up with $10,000 within two weeks. […]
Fools for Christ
Before I became Orthodox, I had heard several sermons about someone being foolish in the eyes of the world in order to serve God. The Scripture most often quoted was from Saint Paul: Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that […]
What are your favorite, uhm, sarcastic sayings?
On a post a couple of days ago, people started quoting different slightly sarcastic sayings or “laws.” I ended up having enough fun reading them that I thought I would repost them here and ask whether you have some favorite slightly sarcastic sayings. If you do, would you post them here? The real difference between […]
Five Types of Christians
Mother Maria Skobtsova, a martyr of the Nazi concentration camps, and an early 20th century intellectual and nun, wrote an insightful essay entitled, “Types of Religious Life.” In it she articulates five ways of being religious: the “synodal,” the ritualist, the aesthetical, the ascetical as well the ideal way, the “evangelical” (or “way of the […]
We have met the enemy and he is us, part 02
. . . drop themselves into the sea. The final enemy is the one to which we tend to historically pay the least attention, and that is the flesh. And here is the key to what kept the monastics and the Amish from straying into the legalism and the lack of balance of the separatist […]
Vilification as a modern tool
Below is a good quote from a Baptist pastor who is reliably known as a theological conservative. I think it needs no further comment and it invites us to think: The reason conservatives and progressives can’t talk to one another are the tactics of vilification. We turn to them too soon. We use them without restraint. We […]
We have met the enemy and he is us, part 01
I have been talking about the Anabaptists–or at least those descended from the English Separatists–and the early monastics. I have mentioned how the monastics were kept from falling into the same trap as the Anabaptists. But, let me put it another way that may help you to see it better, and it has to do […]
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