A Sign of Hope

A few days after the recent election I heard a right wing talk show host speculate that Barack Obama would choose the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to offer the prayer at the inauguration. Shortly after that I was involved in an online discussion, in which most of the participants were of what I call the Latin [...]

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The Decline and Fall of Everything

About three months ago I successfully bid on a new mail route. The new route has quieter neighborhoods, some bordering wooded areas, and a good bit less walking: about 2 1/2 hours instead of 5 1/2. It gets a lot more mail and is not as leisurely a pace as the old route, but I [...]

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The Sacredness of Life vs. Worldly Ethics

This is really a spin-off from the comments on the previous post, where Thomas Storck remarked that ” I think it’s probably ‘natural’ that a non-Christian society will tolerate abortion.” To which I added euthanasia etc. A little while ago I came across a good example: this story about a man who cooperated in his [...]

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