Let Us Be Tenfold Careful…

…”If God has given any insight into the reality of His Being, and our relation to Him… let us be tenfold careful about our fellow man, that we do him no wrong.” George MacDonald in a sermon preached more than 100 years ago in Westminster Chapel,...

Totalitarianism

Refugees…Suffering…How do I respond to the daily diet of words and pictures from, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Russia and the Americas? Hannah Arendt, Philosopher, a refugee herself, wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. “How could...

Costly Grace

  Church & Politics: Just downloaded the Kindle version of Costly Grace, by Rob Schenck, who played a pivotal role in forging the alliance between evangelicals & the Republican party. He “is now a voice for ethical reform in evangelicalism &...

Lord have mercy (Matthew 20:30)

Lord have mercy on Children in trauma, Lord have mercy on Parents in sorrowful loss, Lord have mercy on Officials who separate Children and parents, Lord have mercy on Those who justify evil deeds, Lord have mercy on us all. (Photo: Albrecht Dürer, “Praying Hands”...

Prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas

“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen...