Last night I watched JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG. I recognize that it is considered politically incorrect to say such things these days (Damn Godwin’s Law!), but throughout the entire film I couldn’t help thinking of the apologia offered up by the German people after the War. “We stayed silent because we were afraid and because we […]
Growing up in Grundy County, I knew a boy whose family lived at the end of a dirt road in Layne’s Cove. His name was Jimmy Tucker and his skin was a white as alabaster. It was so white, in fact, that blue veins throbbed through the opacity of his cheeks, especially on cold days. […]
Way back in the stone age when I was an overeager, pimply-faced and intellectually callow freshman at Vanderbilt University, just barely turned seventeen, I took an introductory New Testament course at the divinity school . The course was taught by Fr. John Donoho SJ, a roly-poly little fellow who, come to find out, was one […]
As today’s commemoration draws to a close, it is perhaps appropriate to spend a moment reflecting on the nature of time itself. For those of us of a more mature vintage, the events of fifty years ago in Dallas remain indelibly imprinted on our souls. They are integral to the age we inhabit and the […]
Most of my friends know the one group with the single issue which pushes all my buttons: the idiots, most of whom occupy seats on Texas school boards, who insist that “evolution is just a theory”. Somehow or another, these logic-challenged Lone Star denizens, along with their myrmidons in other red parts of this great […]
Forgive me, I beg you. Once more I have to get something off my chest. As you can imagine, the tailspin of Anthony Weiner’s mayoral candidacy is all the buzz across cable news and Twitter today. I suppose it is a hot topic, driven by salacious revelations and voyeuristic indulgence. I can live with all […]
The other day I was reading about Johan Huibers, the Dutchman from Dordrecht who has built a full-scale replica of Noah’s ark. It started me thinking about what a simplistic, literal age we inhabit in these first decades of the 21st century and how truly dangerous this trend can be for a species facing our […]
I will admit that I’m a reader. Like any reader, I have been enthralled, sometimes even enraptured, by the words I’ve encountered in scores of good books. There have been very few, however, which changed my life. A.N. Wilson’s profound biography, “Jesus: A Life”, is a book which changed my life. Wilson spent his youth […]
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