In the middle of the devastating news coming from south Texas this week, there’s strangely been an undercurrent of goodness. An entire city virtually disappeared under water, but on the news we see nobility on a grand scale. It’s not the usual parade of human beings at their worst. Ever since Harvey made first landfall,…
At TOBET, one of the most frequent and desperate pleas for help that we hear concerns pornography. It’s snagging our young men, beginning around age 8 (and even some girls and women are being pulled in). If your son or grandson has a smartphone or tablet (without filtering software), be assured, he is seeing these…
This past January, I received a “death threat” via Facebook… my first. Ironically, it was issued because I am pro-life. I laughed it off, because the authors were some middle-aged Northeastern women from the so-called peaceful “Women’s March.” I brashly thought, “Go ahead, make my day.” Being a marathon runner, I figured I could at…
This week will bring change, of the sort none of us can comfortably predict. Whatever happens on Tuesday, our nation will reap what has been sown. The genie is out of the bottle, Pandora can’t stuff it all back down in the box. We’ve sown a disregard for authority; we’ll reap a lawless society. We’ve…
I rarely blog on the subject-of-the-day, because with all the great bloggers out there, I am sure to be out-thunk. I’ll take a stab at this one, however, because it’s in my back yard of Dallas, the city where I was born and now live. I’ve been seeing the blue of the Dallas Police Department…
I remember a time when people would have reacted with human concern over a little boy falling into a wild animal enclosure at the zoo. We would have asked things like, “Is he going to survive? What kind of injuries did he have, and what medical expenses are involved? How is his mother, after she…
Ideologues in our culture drive public discussion like they own the car. So just on principle, I refuse to write about the current turmoil-du-jour, The Bathroom Wars. Instead I choose the topic of modesty. modesty, adj. That looks like two different kinds of modesty: ego modesty and body modesty. Let’s begin with ego modesty, the…
Note: This post originally attributed the opening quote to the interviewer, Elaina Koros, rather than the author, Jonathan Eig. My apologies. The attribution has been corrected. “People have been trying to control birth since the dawn of sex. As long as we’ve been trying to make babies, we’ve been trying not to make babies.” —Jonathan Eig on…
The latest papal commotion about contraception surely has some people asking: “What’s the big deal?” They join the chorus that began when companies like Hobby Lobby went to court over being forced to cover contraception under Obamacare. Why in the world are people making such a fuss over contraception? Radio personality Garrison Keillor used to…
I’ll say one thing for this Pope: he certainly keeps us bloggers busy. Thank you, Pope Francis! I now have enough material for the next three or four posts. Papal authority, the Zika virus, the lesser of two evils, microcephaly, Blessed Pope Paul VI, nuns in the Congo, and more! OK, so much for the…
