Ignorance combined with mal-education is a powerful weapon for the hearts and minds of the young.
Confused by Important Terms
An Incarnated Church
On the Primacy of Embodiment, Against the Online Instructors is a wonderful essay at The Public Discourse. It deals head-on with the clear shortcomings of online education from the point of view of human nature. We have known for a long time that long term disembodied education is not only a disservice to both teacher... Continue Reading →
The Real Easter Is Better
The recently elected Senator from Georgia has been hailed by some as a long-awaited Christian presence in the U.S. Senate. He makes political hay of his ordination, his views on the tyrant Fidel Castro are wishy-washy at best, and openly supports full access to abortion, including partial birth abortion. These behaviors immediately disqualify him as... Continue Reading →
“The opposite direction is a Person…”
I am thoroughly enjoying Robert Cardinal Sarah's, The Day is Now Far Spent. It is very thoughtful, very challenging. It contains this excerpt from a homily he gave to pilgrims to Chartres: The world we must not love, as Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa commented in his homily on Good Friday 2018, to which we do not... Continue Reading →
The Hopelessness of Critical Theory
There is so much confusion about Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory, it is often hard to cut through the smoke and get to substance. The proponents of CT/CRT often deny the implications of their theory, even changing the vocabulary they use to dodge responsibility. The applications of the theory appear so fast, they are... Continue Reading →
The “Not-So-Much” For The People Act
ONLY THE MOB and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself; the masses have to be won by propaganda. Under conditions of constitutional government and freedom of opinion, totalitarian movements struggling for power can use terror to a limited extent only and share with other parties the necessity of winning adherents... Continue Reading →
Thinking Carefully about Social Justice
Possibly the dominant issue in the Western culture today is social justice and all of the sociological, political, and philosophical fallout that comes with it. Some of the most culturally significant books and public thinkers right now are detailing one view of social justice or another, or analyzing the shape of our culture as it... Continue Reading →
Leaving False Teaching
When the Old Testament nation of Judah split into two kingdoms, the fallout included more than just a split of kings and courts. It involved a split of priests and worship as well. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was far from a righteous king, but he did keep the Temple in Jerusalem and worship to... Continue Reading →
Some (not so) Random Quotes
I have been spending time with the philosophy and economics of Marxism/Socialism/Communism, as well as the writings of mid-20th century dissidents who endured and resisted the evil they lived under. I have known, since reading Marx in the 90s, that it is a hard-core atheistic philosophy, and that it gets everything about the human experience... Continue Reading →
There are Deep Problems with the Equality Act
This afternoon, the U.S. House passed the “The Equality Act”. This bill is the most extreme challenge to the basic assumptions of our culture, our moral structure, and to the rights that so many have labored for so long to secure. There is a plethora of very good articles detailing the manifold ways in which... Continue Reading →
