The Four Loves

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

by C.S. Lewis The greatness of Plato's Symposium is to the greatness of this book as the sphere of the Earth is to the sphere of the fixed stars. The four loves are: Affection, Friendship, Eros, and Charity (Storge, Philos, Eros, and Agape). I especially connected with Lewis' redemption of Eros. The sternest feminist ...

Hanging By A Moment

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Great Song, Great Lyrics: Desperate for changing Starving for truth I'm closer to where I started Chasing after you I'm falling even more in love with you Letting go of all I've held onto I'm standing here until you make me move I'm hanging by a moment here with you Forgetting ...

Fire From Heaven

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I have a feeling that 1 Samuel 19:20-21 and 2 Kings 1:9-12 looked very similar in the spiritual realm. Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers ...

Proverbs 13:23

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, But it is swept away by injustice. (NASB) This is basically the entirety of the book I read a little bit back: The Mystery of Capital. The author adds in a few accounts of history,empirical evidence, and practical answers to this problem, but ...

Matthew 7:3-5

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove ...

Monday, January 7th, 2008

in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas In essentials: unity, in non-essentials: diversity, in all things: charity. St. Augustine

Funny Ad

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the girl The girl who has everything? Look at this trove, treasures untold How many wonders can one cavern hold? Looking around here, you'd think Sure, she's got everything I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty I've got who's-its and what's-its galore You want ...

Ché

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

In January 1957, as his diary from the Sierra Maestra indicates, Guevara shot Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information: “I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain.... His belongings were now mine.” or for the lighter side of ...

Money Can’t

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

What I found was that economic inequality doesn’t frustrate Americans at all. It is, rather, the perceived lack of economic opportunity that makes us unhappy. To focus our policies on inequality, instead of opportunity, is to make a grave error—one that will worsen the very problem we seek to solve ...

L.O.S.E. so We Can Win!

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Lovingly Opposed to Sin and Evil We may not end evil this year, but with your help we will work hard to get a government grant to study doing so. Our very ineffectiveness will be a sign of our servant-leadership that dares not limit the Other by making the attainable an ...

Alvin Plantinga on The God Delusion

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

The God Delusion is full of bluster and bombast, but it really doesn't give even the slightest reason for thinking belief in God mistaken, let alone a "delusion." The naturalism that Dawkins embraces, furthermore, in addition to its intrinsic unloveliness and its dispiriting conclusions about human beings and their place in ...

Does Aid aid Africa?

Friday, July 6th, 2007

We can continue the endless cycle of need and dependency, or you can create jobs, develop indigenous capacity, and build a sustainable future. Aid not only crowds out local entrepreneurship, it makes governments lazy and deprives countries of the incentive to build effective institutions. Public revenue derived from taxes makes governments ...

“Peace and Justice Christians”

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I happen to agree that abortion is a form of murder. I think the quarrel about when life begins is disrespectful to the fetus. I know I murdered the life within me. I could have loved that life but chose not to. I did what men ...

Episcopal Church

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The Episcopal "Church" is suing to regain it's property from the 11 churches in Virginia that broke away from the larger body in order to remain with orthodox Anglican beliefs. When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead ...

Bomb Iran?

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

The only thing worse than bombing Iran is allowing Iran to get the bomb. Compelling case for bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, soon.

One.org

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

The ONE Campaign is an effort by Americans to rally Americans – one by one – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE is students and ministers, punk rockers and NASCAR moms, Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life, united to help make poverty ...

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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Myself unholy, from myself unholy To the sweet living of my friends I look--- Eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, Fresh brooks to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:--- And they are purer, but alas! not solely The unquestion'd readings of a blotless book. And so my trust, confusèd, struck, and shook Yields to the sultry siege of melancholy. He ...

Psalm 35:1-3

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me; Fight against those who fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. Also draw out the spear, And stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation." Reading through the Psalms, this section jumped out, which ...

Phantom of the Opera

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I watched that movie (it was a year ago, but I just wanted to post this clip)... I actually think the world would be a better place without Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Peace Quotation

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

I saw a bumper sticker (i.e. "take its accuracy with a grain of salt") quotation today: Peace cannot come about by means of force, only understanding -- Albert Einstein I would like to respond to this. Peace cannot come about by understanding. That belief denies the intrinsic wretchedness of man which cannot be ...