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Remembering with Gratitude and Sorrow
Amid the aftermath of the most recent episodes of civilian slaughter we come to our National Day of Remembrance for the lives given in service to our country. With so few in America now serving in the armed forces, and … Continue reading
Everything is Broken
In a recently highlighted post by Alana Newhouse on the Tablet website entitled Everything Is Broken the author generalizes from her experience with what she describes as a broken US medical establishment to musing on how every other part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, forgiveness, hope, mercy, original sin, sin, tradition
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Thanksgiving retrospective
Reflections on Civic Religion – public expressions of national faith in God This year’s pandemic transformed holiday traditions have attempted to replace physical with virtual presence to mitigate the spread of the COVID virus. Perhaps those adapted to the virtual … Continue reading
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Tagged civil religion, sin, Thanksgiving, worship
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Tweet others as you would like to be tweeted
Listening to a symposium on social media and the 1st Amendment hosted by Georgetown University and the Knight First Amendment Institute I heard the above permutation of the ‘Golden Rule’. The entire hour and forty minute panel discussion was interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Facebook, free speech, human nature, original sin, sin, social media, speech, technology, twitter
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The Work of Humility
Reflections for Labor Day: God gave me being in order that I should give it back to him. It is like one of those traps whereby the characters are tested in fairy stories and tales on initiation. If I accept … Continue reading
Sin & Death – a moebius strip
For a while now I have thought about posting something about one of the most theologically influential verses in the New Testament, Romans 5:12, on which Augustine famously depended for his teaching on original sin. Readings from a recent daily … Continue reading
Adam & the Tree: Dante’s Paradiso Canto XXVI
The first human, Adam, tells Dante that the tree in the Garden of Eden from which he and Eve ate was not a bad tree. It was good, as all creation is. The Fall resulted from violating God’s decree to … Continue reading
Destiny…Man’s and God’s Kingdom
Where others saw only superficial politics, Bernanos saw man’s eternal destiny and, indeed, the destiny of God’s Kingdom at stake. Just as an individual sins, plunges into the abyss, undergoes conversion, and confesses his wrongdoing, so too a country in … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Péguy, conversion, destiny, George Bernanos, Hans Urs von Balthasar, modernity, sin
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Our hidden faults…
The great misfortune is that the justice of men always comes too late. It represses or stigmatizes certain acts, without ever tracing these either higher or farther back than the person who has committed them. But our hidden faults poison … Continue reading
