RSS FeedWHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF THE SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS REMEDY?
RACHEL MCADAMS The movie Spotlight, directed by Thomas McCarthy, is a masterly portrayal of the Boston Globe team that investigated the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan cover-up of sexual abuse amongst its clergy. It stars Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Michael Keaton,...
WORLD CHRISTIAN LEADER ON ISLAMIC PERSECUTION
In an interview with www.virtueonline.org the Rev. Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, the director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity expressed his belief that Islamic State wants the destruction of Christianity and the West. Their interpretation of Islam is...
HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR OURSELVES AND OUR WORLD THREATENED BY TERRORISM?
In the light of the Paris terrorists attacks I have used the following prayers. Almighty God, Lord of all peoples and nations on the earth, Whose power no one is able to resist, and who can turn evil to good. Save and deliver us, we humbly pray, from the hands of...
SUFFRAGETTE
My wife and I went to see the movie SUFFRAGETTE. It is a powerful presentation of the movement to win voting rights for women in Great Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. Carey Mulligan plays the lead role of a working class mother who became involved in the...
WHAT ARE THE LIMITS AND DANGERS OF MODERN MEDICINE TO THE TERMINALLY ILL AND THEIR FAMILIES?
Atul Gawande, surgeon, author and public health researcher, in his recent book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, argues that the reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and deny...
WHAT PLAYING RUGBY TAUGHT ME
Last Saturday New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup by defeating Australia. This makes New Zealand the first country to win three times. The newspapers and commentators opined on why this small nation of 4.5 million in the South Pacific should be so successful at this...
WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?
There is a television commercial for a credit card that concludes with the question: “What’s in your wallet?” I fished out my wallet and looked inside. I found that I carried two prayers. One is from Ephesians 3:14-19 and the other is from a hymn, written by Ada...
THE EDUCATION OF LOUIS L’AMOUR
I am enjoying reading the short stories of Louis L’Amour (1908-1988). He wrote a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, about his early life finding work through the Depression in the West and on ships that travelled to the Orient. Wherever he found himself he read...
WHEN IS IT LOVING TO CONFRONT RATHER THAN CONCILIATE?
We live in a pluralistic world where there is freedom of speech and religion. Tolerance is the highest virtue. “Anything Goes” is more than the title of a song by Cole Porter. Any attempt to assert an absolute truth is condemned unless that truth is that there is no...
WHATIS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH, LIES AND DRIVEL?
David Warren The Triumph of Drivel Reflections on the election of Justin Trudeau and the “idiotized” culture. "Perhaps I should explain what I mean by “drivel.” I could write “lies,” but these are only possible to those who have criteria for the truth. Drivel is what...
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