Yay!
And though the right for pro-lifers to protest abortion clinics isn’t the main fight, this is a victory not only for the healthy national dialogue on this issue but for plain-speaking. Trying to say that pro-life protesters’ rights should be revoked based on racketeering charges is as illogical as … well, as saying that an […]

Via townhall.com::
An impressive list of evangelical Christian leaders has recently signed onto the “Evangelical Climate Initiative” (ECI), a statement calling for Americans to do what they can to combat climate change.
Some of the statement seems reasonable and biblical. Yes, Christians are called to be stewards of the earth. Yes, we’re charged with caring […]

At this time of year with seasons changing and Lent starting, I’ve had a couple Orthodox insights I’ve heard bouncing around my head. The subject is time and how we perceive its passage.

The same, but different
I can’t believe that we’re coming up on another Cheesefare Sunday. So here we go. This week: omelettes; crepes; mac […]

Even the doing of what is good requires discrimination … for the good is not good unless its purpose is conformed to God’s will.
– Peter of Damascus

God Himself lives in that man who has a peaceful heart.
– Anatoly of Optina

You win some and you lose some. I still can’t believe that the South Dakota House has approved a bill to ban almost all abortions. That may end up being a long way away from the bill being passed, and of course Planned Parenthood plans to sue, which means that it would go before the […]

Wealth is an evil for the evil, a good for the good.
– St. Augustine

All right, this whole hot topic about letting Dubai Ports World manage six US ports has me confused. So, is it a terrible idea or not?

For once, the political lines are blurred. On the (miniscule) right print media, Wall St. Journal and Christian Science Monitor are for it; the New York Daily News is against […]

Amazing. It’s not even March, but we’re getting April weather again. Squirrels are out, the lawns are trying to green up and we seem to have a pair of robins in our holly bush.
And when I drove through Kansas City and Jefferson City today for a long-distance meeting, it was just plain hot. I […]

“If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us,” Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.
Seems logical. It’s certainly not a top story today, but if you want a break from the more […]