Leszek Kolakowski-The Sacred and Profound

“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.” – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and historian of ideas

Gender In, Gender Out?

From the perspective of having worked with a para-church group that has ministered to free people from the cycle of homosexuality, I would like to address a concern of mine… Recently I saw a huge sign outside a mega-church that offered a “Biblical” approach to gender. The wording was directed at teenagers. Though seemingly innocuous…

SCOTUS’ Judicial Reviews-A Wax Museum

Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address regarding the Supreme Court: “And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better…

Aurora, Illinois Planned Parenthood Protest Aug 8-22-2015

August 22, 2015 protest Against Planned Parenthood: Where: Planned Parenthood, 3051 E. New York St., Aurora, IL 60504 630-585-0500 Planned Parenthood Detail: Categories: Hospital & Medical Center, Doctor & Clinic, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Abortion, Pregnancy Information, Infertility Counseling, Abortion Information, Abetting…Mutilation, Eugenics, Selling of fetal body parts, Dr. Mengele’s human experiments, First-degree murder,…

@PPact @PPFA @HeyPP Atrocities and the Chasm of Caedas

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Early Epicurean atomist philosophers believed that death was the end that the incorporeal did not continue. That philosophy lived…

Ends Justifying the Means & Dereliction of Duty: “You can’t have one without the other”

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero First: A Dereliction of Dignity “Justice Kennedy and Dignity” Prior to the SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage: “He [Justice Kennedy] explained that “by authorizing same-sex unions and same-sex marriages, New York sought to give further protection and dignity to that bond.” “…”Justice Kennedy…

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point (Homage to the brothers and sisters in Christ at Emmanuel AME Church, Charleston, SC, 2015) Lines converged At the front of Emanuel AME church. UnWise Blood, brooding in the back, ran cold. ~~ Lines converged As Emanuel AME-“God with us”-black brother and sisters. Wise Blood sought the unconditional, indiscriminate embrace of the Other.…

HOW to COMMENCE: “Fail Big; Be Grateful, Seek Wisdom, Get On Your Knees…”

Denzel Washington’s remarkable commencement speech points these graduates forward and away from, hopefully, the dead-end route of Marxist black liberation theology. Denzel speaks of God-given human desire, of aspirations beyond one’s self, of failing big, of seeking wisdom from above out of a heart of gratefulness and a daily dependence on God. All of these characteristics,…