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Wishing for Another Death
I am lamenting the demise of a station in the Twin Cities. I readily admit my addiction to talk radio. Over the years it has mellowed, but I am a news junkie. There used to be a station that had all news, like a CNN Headlines news for the radio. I ALWAYS listened. (Told you… this is serious.) Over the…
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The Death of (the historical) Jesus
A great article about what I would hope to be the end of an era. From the outrageous “Jesus Seminar” to today, there has been this “quest” for some mythical Jesus. What has happened is we just keep creating Jesus in our own image. There are “scholars” who just don’t want to believe the Scriptures, so they go off on…
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Money, Sex, and Power
The New York Times has no lost love for the Catholic Church. They use every opportunity to raise the ugly issues of the Church. The new findings in sex scandals give them plenty of fodder. I will in no way excuse the incredibly vile behavior of these priests. This column does bring out some interesting facts about the differences between…
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Simplicity
“Simplicity is restful contempt for the non-essentials of life.” What a beautiful line. It’s from this article on simplicity. We keep expanding the list of what is “non-essential.” And we get in trouble for it. What I think I must have is such a long list these days. The goal is to pare down. Understand the essentials. This is true…
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Why Tiger Does NOT Matter
The previous post linked to a NY Times piece on why we need the lessons of Tiger Woods and his failures. Yesterday was the opening round of the Masters golf tournament in Georgia. Tiger Woods is back. It led the top of every newscast I heard on the radio… all day long. Meanwhile, four miners are unaccounted for in the…
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Why Tiger Matters
This column from the NY Times is thought-provoking. Someone is actually making a case for faithful, monogamous marriage. There is a need for solid examples of one man and one woman who are faithful to each other. We need this case stated again and again in our sex-crazed culture.
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Create or Consume
We are a consumer-driven society. Creativity is at low ebb. There is a new “Karate Kid” movie coming out. Really? Re-hash something from the mid 80s? Is that the best we can do? All that money in Hollywood… and we get another Karate Kid. Wow. This article makes the case for creativity and says so many things I have thought…
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Eternal Optimism
David Brooks in this New York Times column unleashes some incredible optimism. It was overwhelming. To have such an optimistic piece after a couple of years of bad news piling on was almost too much. I had to take it in small doses! But I needed that article. The Church needs an article like that. Lately I have been reading…
