C.S. Lewis: God And Pain
Although pain is inevitable and often instructive, I distrust the way Lewis champions it.For elaboration, please see my comments at "Lewis: Quote...
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Although pain is inevitable and often instructive, I distrust the way Lewis champions it.For elaboration, please see my comments at "C.S> Lewis: Quote...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis: Courage
Alan: "Courage" derives from the Latin word, "cor" meaning "heart." It almost goes without saying that "cor" is "at the heart" of the word "core." In the entire array of Christian iconography, "The...
View ArticleSyria: 'Bashar al-Assad Ordered Me To Gas People - But I Could Not Do It'
General Zaher al-Sakat Photo: Richard SpencerBy Richard Spencer, Amman21 Sep 2013General Zaher al-Sakat tells Richard Spencer that he was ordered three times to use chemical weapons against his own...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis: Where Will God-Love Live?
"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first you understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof . . . (but then he...
View ArticleTom Weston: Best Thing Ever Said By A Jesuit
'You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do.' Tom Weston S. J.http://www.jrclosaltos.org/archive/person/fr-thomas-weston-s-j/
View ArticlePope Francis: Rumors Of Pending Assassination
Alan: Earlier today, my lifelong friend JC -- a 68 year-old Catholic Sunday school teacher and life-long servant of the poor -- confided her apprehension that Francis has so rattled "The Old Guard" she...
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Gandhi Paraphrase: "Although every drop of the ocean partakes of ocean's nature, no single drop is the ocean."
View ArticleVideo Clip: Richard Feynman On The Scientific Method
On the scientific method.***Good science requires that researchers try to prove themselves wrong - in addition to proving what's right. In the absence of intellectual rigor, the untrained mind tends to...
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