Worth meditating on: Apparently the/a Greek word for “holy” also means “strong”.
In Christianity, we are called to sanctification, the lifelong process of cooperating more and more with God’s work to make us holy… 146 more words
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Happy Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!
A number of intrepid souls have contributed to the cause since the last time I covered drawing Mohammed:
- The awesome Bosch Fawstin celebrated Everybody Draw Mohammed Day last year by helping others celebrate Everybody Draw Mohammed Day—for those who wanted to join the cause but didn’t feel up to the task artistically, he offered to draw a Mohammed for each on their behalf; readers took him up on it, and… 62 more words
'That is, the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.'
I’ve been reading Chesterton lately (What’s Wrong with the World). He was writing in a very different social context—in England, a hundred years ago—but a lot of it sounds surprisingly familiar. 801 more words
Dog Bites Islamist
Your good-news story of the day:
52 more wordsMAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Officials say a dog at a Nigerian wedding party grappled with a suicide bomber until her explosives detonated, killing the animal as well.
Dead-hand Control
Mark Steyn offers even more melancholy reflections than usual, as the soldiers of a thousand-year-old dead man draw the circle ever tighter on free expression in the West.
The Narcissism of Transgenderism, in One Paragraph, by a Transgendered Person
A recent post by one of my left-leaning Facebook friends:
47 more wordsAs I myself am a Visible Trans Person (whoa!), and it seems to be Trans Day of Visibility, I offer once again: Do you have a question you would like me to attempt to answer (about my gender, or gender in general, or…something else that’s on your mind)?
Song for Our Time: 'Can't Get Enough of Myself'
Tribute to the music of the ’50s and ’60s and the music videos of the ’80s calls out the narcissism of this generation:
