HughHewitt.comIn examining the draft, I may be forced to admit that (gulp) the Packers have taken a second place seat to the (sigh) Browns. Will this be a long season for the forces of Tradition at the Sacred Frozen Tundra? I cannot stand to think we may be worse that a team that plays in Cleveland.
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For Eastern Christians today is Good Friday. Last night we recollected Christ's gift of Holy Communion to the Church. At the end of that most beautiful of services in the light of candles the alter was stripped. Every decoration was removed. Every sign of honor was taken from it.It is a sad thing to see the alter bare. It is a visible sign of the time from Good Friday to Easte...
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ESV Bible Blog: "You can now search the ESV Bible from A9.com."I have a new standard study Bible and can report that Torrey Honors at Biola is thinking of making the same switch.For years I used the Revised Standard Version. Despite the beauty of the translation, it was often theologically suspect. I decided to move to the NIV, but could not stand the USA Today level writing. ...
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. . . Right now the Democrat Party and t...
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Moderate, often liberal Republicans, are giving the President a hard time. Why? There is no administration scandal that often plagues second term presidents. The nation is at war which should lead to a tightening of party ranks. Sadly, the answer is simple.Moderates have fallen for the siren song of "History." Normally unimportant, indeed hack, politicians from tiny states lik...
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The God Blogs are here. We don't have to turn to CNN to tell us about the Pope or watch folk who know nothing about the topic struggle to talk about it.Instead we have a voice and a press of our own.Register now here.Space really is limited.We will talk, we will argue, and the blogging will be fine.Think Southern California in the Fall.And you get to hear the God-Father of God...
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Monday night football is no longer on ABCHere is the announcement from the NFL: The agreement with ESPN covers eight seasons of Monday Night Football from 2006-2013 and includes an earlier kickoff time -- 8:40 p.m. ET -- for 17 Monday night games per season. ESPN's Monday night telecasts will be preceded by its highly rated NFL Countdown pregame show, which will continue ...
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This is the writing on peace by Benedict XV that has caused CNN and our mainstream media to see signs of moderation in Benedict XVI. They find pull quotes from academics that tell them what they want to hear. . . but most "journalists" cannot bother to read the source material themselves though it can be seen in a few clicks. Compare this piece by Benedict XV to the sermon by...
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My second favorite media line today (next to Sullivanism: this pope is about to crush all dissent) is:This Pope picked the name Benedict as a sign of moderation.Somehow media types find "moderation" in the career of Benedict XV. This makes one wonder: was he a closet gay rights activist? But no, Benedict worked for "peace" in the First World War. From that liberals and lazy pe...
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Eternal fame on this blog for anyone finding ten cases of the following insane claim:Benedict wants to "silence" his critics.What this means is that the new Pope does not want non-Catholic teaching proclaimed as Catholic doctrine. . . the Roman Church is not going to pay for its own destruction. What it sounds like it means, but does not, is that foes of the new Pope end up de...
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Read this brilliant homily yourself.Pope Benedict XVI: "How many winds of doctrine we have known in these last decades, how many ideological currents, how many modes of thought... The little ship of thought of many Christians has been not seldom agitated by this wind ― tossed by an extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism; from collectivism to radical individualism; ...
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You can tell a great deal about a man by his foes. Read this hysterical reaction to the election of Benedict XVI from Andrew Sullivan. As usual my comments are in italics.www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "STILL IN SHOCK: Thanks for your emails both sympathizing and telling me to leave the Church entirely. But I am still in shock. This was not an act of continuity. There is...
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Cardinal Ratzinger's Challenge (washingtonpost.com): "The modern world, Ratzinger insisted, has jumped 'from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and on and on.'"The new Pope, Benedict XVI, is exactly right. This is the mos...
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