The heavens declare the glory of God.
It is an old truth that becomes new every time you go out in the twilight, or see the sky on a clear night, or witness the dawn.
I am half-persuaded that urbanization and the indoor life tracks with the rise of atheism.
Nice article, by Dale A. Robbins.
From a dozen years ago in LDS Church News:
“Helen Green, 90, is the oldest living member of the first branch Sunday School started in Lubbock. She made the journey with other family members from her home in Orem, Utah, to attend the dedication. Musing outside the temple before her dedicatory session, she recalled the days when the branch Sunday School was held in a courtroom with west Texas Church pioneer and Texas Tech professor J.O. Ellsworth presiding from the judge’s bench, the speakers giving their talks on the witness stand and the rest of the congregation often fitting comfortably in the jury box.”
The Church teaches that the Church is not about politics. The Church proclaims its political neutrality.
Yet the Church is widely perceived as a right-wing organization.
To the question, “Why does the Church seem to be right-wing”, the usual answer offered in the Bloggernacle is that the Church leaders are old, right-wing men.
Because I believe the Church is sincere in its pronouncements, I propose an alternate hypothesis.
Bruce Charlton’s commenter Arakawa has derived his own version of the amphibious synthesis of time and eternity. (more…)
With echoes of Thomas Hobbes. (more…)
On August 15, 1942, an American fighter pilot named Bill Warden bailed out of his crippled aircraft near the western end of Guadalcanal, which at the time was controlled by the Japanese. He was rescued by coast watcher Leif Schroeder, who took him to Father Emery de Klerk, a Dutch Catholic missionary. de Klerk took the considerable risk of giving Warden refuge and medical care. (more…)
I have no idea if this is true or not, but Putin supposedly likened negotiating with Obama to playing chess with a pigeon: first, the pigeon knocks all the pieces over, then it, ahem, “poops” on the board, then it struts around as if it won.
This lettered lady wishes to rid us of Academic Freedom, so that she can enforce ‘proper’ views, including hetero-sexism. Freedom is just too much trouble for those hallowed halls of learning at Harvard.
Full quote:
The Progressives in their smirking self-righteous piety and grotesque self-imposed ignorance are henchmen of the devil. Some know it, most do not. They stand between a woman and her human nature, her happiness, her children, and they speak the selfsame lie. The source of your happiness is the barrier to happiness. Destroy the source of your happiness, toss happiness aside, and you will be happy.
Thus, John C. Wright, agreeing with David Warren.
