Faith
Christmas gratitude
“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” ~ G.K. Chesterton
Read MoreA beautiful Christmas message from Ronald Reagan
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU0tuah-x7M] Let’s turn the clock back some thirty years to hear the beautiful Christmas address of a president who loved Christ. Ronald Reagan wasn’t afraid to call Jesus the Christ. He called a Christmas tree a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree. He gave no quarter to the politically-correct Thought Police who…
Read MoreThe most dangerous idea
The most dangerous idea in human history “… remains the belief that Jesus Christ was the the son of God and rose from the dead. Because it alters the whole of human behavior and all our responsibilities. It turns the universe from a meaningless chaos into a designed place in which there is justice and there is hope and, therefore, we all have a duty to discover the nature of that justice and work towards that hope. It alters us all. If we reject it, it alters us all as well. It is incredibly dangerous., It’s why so many people turn against it.”
I pondered two conflicting dangerous ideas this morning at a funeral for a little girl who died after living but two days …
Gay atheist has much to teach liberal Christians about Christianity
The Duck Dynasty debacle reveals how Big Entertainment and Big Media try to marginalize practicing Christians. Even more, main line Protestantism is moving toward an embrace of homosexuality and away from the notion that acting on same-sex desires is sinful. A gay atheist who knows a great deal about Christianity says these Christians are misrepresenting what Christianity really says about homosexuality …
Read MoreWhy I believe in Santa Claus
One year, my sister and I concocted a scheme to catch Santa when he brought gifts to our house. We tied a string to his glass of milk (next to the plate of cookies we left for him) and strung it all they way to the upstairs where we slept and put a bell on the end. When Santa took a gulp of milk, the bell would ring and we would run down the stairs and confront our friend.
Read More"With love like that, who needs hate?"
The Muslim scholar had an apartment in Philadelphia.
The apartment allowed him to have a dog.
He got a new job in another city, and, unfortunately, it did not allow pets.
So what was he going to do with this dog that he acknowledged he loved? Why kill it, of course …
Pope Francis' authentic Christianity
Most of us are flawed, well-intentioned hypocrites.
Here’s what I mean. We try to live our lives according to our faith, but the seduction of sin sets us back.
We try to do good, and hopefully we do, and then we go and act like lunkheads …
Prayers continue to be answered this Advent
The secular world is oblivious to the lavish quantity of prayers devoted to Life.
In the Catholic Church alone, thousands of the faithful say Rosaries every day, every week, every month, year-after-year on behalf of this single cause alone.
So many of our Protestant brothers and sisters join us in praying on behalf of the dignity of human life …
Our Lady of Guadalupe for atheists
I’d like to present a fascinating mystery for my readers who are atheists.
The day was December 9th, 1531. It was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Spanish Empire.
A peasant by the name of Juan Diego was walking and encountered the vision of a teenage girl bathed in light.
She asked the peasant to have a church built on this site in her name.
Who was she?
An Advent prayer for a pagan world
Paganism is flourishing in America and around the world.
This heathen religion takes a number of forms. For some, it is a sort of worship of nature, as expressed by this person who wrote to Dear Abby in the morning’s paper …