Memorial Day 2009
May 25th, 2009Remembering grandfathers of 1917, veterans of The Great War:
Paul Kuric
Peter Briese
Time and Surprise at Christmas
December 14th, 2008
The second installment of Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord, The Road to Cana, climaxes with important discussions of time and surprise, appropriate for consideration at this time of the year.
Night and Thanksgiving
November 27th, 2008
To read Eli Wiesel’s Night on Thanksgiving is to enter into a world for which no gratitude is thinkable. No more proof that the fullness of the Kingdom of God is Not Yet can be found than in this personal testament of Job-like suffering and despair. No story could better reveal either the Evil of the Present Age or the dominance of Satan. Evil is winning. Good is losing The demonic is in control. Where is God? How can St. Paul’s admonition “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” apply? After reading this story how can we “know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him”?
Czech Humor
August 7th, 2008
Vaclav Klaus’ provocative new book Blue Planet in Green Shackles. What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom.
Were Adam and Eve Real or a Myth? Science Says Real
June 12th, 2008
A few days ago when I was talking about Adam and Eve, my teenage son remarked that in school (a Catholic school, no less) he was taught that Adam and Eve were mytholocial, not real. I told him I thought they were both, first real , then typological, and eventually mythological. I had forgotten a key bit of information to share with my son. My pastor reminded me of it yesterday.
The Spread of Religion
October 21st, 2007 ”And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
Matthew 24:14
Thanks to Between Two Worlds
