A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics and Religion
by Tom Quiner
A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion
by Tom Quiner
Did you hear about the teacher who had sex in the closet twice in one day?
“Did you see the front page of the newspaper?”
I was enjoying morning coffee with my wife. We were reading the newspaper. Having finished the main news section, the Metro Iowa section, and the Sports page, I turned to my favorite section, the comics.
As I chuckled over “Rhymes with Orange,” I noticed Karen was glancing at the front page.
“Are you reading the article about the school teacher who was forced to resign for having sex with a staffer in the closet of his classroom?”
Liberals are livid because Mitt Romney's son adopts black baby
Mitt Romney’s son committed a cardinal sin: he adopted a black baby.
Ben and Andelyne Romney have enraged liberals who distrust the motives of conservatives when they do something good.
Here is a sampling of liberal outrage from the Twitterverse:
Courage: the indisputable virtue
In a world where forces are at work to redefine society’s virtues, courage remains an indisputable virtue. Our soldiers have gone into battle absolutely terrified at the thought of dying. Their legs shook. They vomited. Their heads pounded. And yet they stormed the beach in the face of enemy fire, in the face of probable death.
C.S. Lewis suggests that these examples of courage, that these examples of spilled blood, bear fruit by nourishing something absolutely essential to our humanity: courage.
What do you look like to God?
What do you look like to yourself?
Sometimes our greed and our lusts, our angers and guilts erode our self-image.
Sometimes the vicissitudes of life lead us to addiction and despair.
When we look in the mirror, we can barely recognize ourselves …
"Why do some people seem to have more faith than others?"
This probing question came up in a catechism study group to which I belong, and it got my creative juices flowing. It quickly became for me such a source for meditation that I thought I should share it …
The politically incorrect Country Music Awards
I’m about to become a country music fan …
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