This Lent, I have been using C.S. Lewis’ book Mere Christianity as a way of self-examination. Why C.S. Lewis? Why not an Orthodox classic, such as the The Philokalia of the Niptic Fathers or another one such as The Ladder of Divine Ascent? Well, for two reasons. One, in many ways, both texts are addressed […]

  Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body—different from one another and each contributing what no other could. When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember […]

This will be a very short post. But, it is something that has been on my mind lately. And, it has to do with both political parties. Both political parties are driving us into very dangerous ground. Why do I say so? Well, in the last few days, I have seen posts that are clear […]

  The devil does not have only one weapon. He uses many different means to defeat human beings: now with bribery, now with boredom, now with greed he attacks, inflicting mental and physical wounds equally. The kind of temptation varies with the different kinds of victim. Avarice is the test of the rich, loss of […]

With the movie Fifty Shades of Grey coming out, everyone is talking about it. I have reached my ad nauseam point. So, why am I mentioning it? Well, over on Internetmonk.com, a wonderful article on consent was written by Damaris Zehner. She makes the following, quite trenchant, points about consent. Consent appears to be one […]

  My wife tells me that in high school a teacher explained to their class the concept of individual rights and their limits. He would say that their individual rights ended at the end of his nose. He would explain that this meant that they could swing their arms as much as they wanted to […]

‘s   I was thinking again about the vaccine issues and wondering how we arrived at this junction in which our vaccination rate is lower than many other nations, including Third World nations. Frankly, I have decided that it was a perfect storm. It was a mixture of misguided libertarianism (not all libertarianism is misguided, […]

Several years ago, I joined the chorus of people who began to warn that as vaccination rates fell, we were setting ourselves up for a coming epidemic. In particular, measles, mumps, and whooping cough were pointed out as being the likely ones to first begin to spread. Meantime, we got carried away with diseases that […]

I am having one of those experiences today that makes all the terrible service stories one hears from time to time utterly believable. My wife and I became so tired of the poor internet service from CenturyLink that we finally decided to switch over to Charter Communications. Their internet speed is much higher than CenturyLink […]

The police officers of the City of New York have a tough job. They, along with firemen, emergency medical services, medical personnel, etc., were the ones who stepped into the breach 13 and 1/2 years ago after the terrorist bombing of the City. Now, over a decade later, they have become afflicted with a deadly […]