I understand the state’s insistence that Christianity not be given preference. But that doesn’t help me make my way smoothly through these two cases, documented in a Wall St. Journal piece entitled “Christian Girls, Interrupted”:
Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it.
One of these courts […]

Interesting that both Barack Obama and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates called this latest brouhaha and the allegations of racism over Gates’ arrest a “teachable moment.” I agree. So what should it teach them, now that both Obama and Gates have started backpedaling for all their worth?

If we’re ever really going to be post-racial as […]

As of 12:47, the situation on the Somali pirates was that(*) they still have the American captain hostage and that “other pirate-held ships were being moved towards the area.”
As of 10:47, the president still didn’t want to even comment about the situation. This, after the White House’s official word, hours after the hijacking yesterday, that […]

Remember that worldwide, unstoppable temperature change that made Al Gore a genius and was all our fault? Well, … Discovery says it might be taking a break for a while.
According to a new study, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.
Earth’s climate continues to confound scientists. Following […]

This Sunday commemorates the expulsion from Paradise, and so at Orthros we heard:
Verily, Adam cried moaning, and said, “Woe is me. … I who was for a time robed with the glory of immortality, have become like one dead, wrapped in the rags of death… But Thou, Lover of mankind, mantled in compassion, who didst […]

Now here’s a headline you don’t see often: Race for God particle heats up.

Scientists in Switzerland and the U.S. are in a mad rush to see which will be first to discover a Higgs boson, or “God particle.” If I recall what I learned in “The Elegant Universe ** ” correctly (and I probably don’t), […]

There’s an essay called “Born to Suffer” in monastic newsletter I get called ‘The Veil,’ (monastery listing HERE) and in it I read:
Our sufferings come in many forms, both collectively as a people or a nation, and also as individuals. As a nation/people, we do not have to look far into the past to see […]

Two stories that didn’t make the front page of your local totally unbiased newspaper.

In Iraq, democracy is the new hotness. Via CNN …
One Sunni Arab man strolling through Baghdad, Ali Sabah, 26, told CNN he is looking forward to casting a ballot.
“Democracy is the correct way, this is for sure,” he said.
… and  Reuters:
Thousands of […]

It’s an overcast Sunday, Greg is upstairs taking a Sunday nap and so, for some reason, the mysterious little voices in my head told me … it’s time for the poncho!
This would be the genuine Stylish Reversible Celtic Poncho that I purchased so proudly a couple years ago, only to find that Greg has […]

Conservatives are supposed to be being conciliatory right now. We’re supposed to be acting classy and doing all that elegant stuff like congratulating Obama and taking our rightful place as the losers with the ‘good sport’ pin on our lapel.
That’s baloney. I’m a sore loser, and I’m honest enough to admit it.

In a way, though, […]