The season of Advent is unobserved and forgotten outside the Church. Christmas has become for many merely a pleasant diversion, a fantasia on wintry themes.
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Winston Churchill’s Way With Words
We have a president who loves to make speeches, but there is a gap spanning the space between his oratory and his heart. After almost seven years, and words ad nauseum, who can believe a word he utters?
Our present age, challenged by specters few understand cries out for a leader to rally this nation’s greatness and unify us under a banner, red, white and blue with a spangle of stars to eclipse the cultural diversity at whose altar so many worship. We used to be a melting pot, but now inflamed fractions of competing cultures, persuaded that their slice of the American pie is somehow owed to them, no longer grateful, are envious, suspicious and, most of all, impatient.
Who can lead us out of this enveloping darkness. Where is the man with more than hollow words and empty heart? I long for a Churchill. President John F. Kennedy, himself a man with a message for our nation and his time, said of Winston Churchill:
“In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone — and most men save Englishmen despaired of England’s life — he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”
This podcast will throw a little light on the making of such a man.
Good Good Father
Lupita
Lupita, Woman of the holy hill,
Stop me on the road,
Bid me stay.
Lupita, Woman before the sun
Wearing the stars of night,
Seeking the stray.
Lupita, Woman with Child,
Two hearts beating,
Announcing one Way.
Lupita, Women of the Roses,
Lupita, Mamacita,
Help, we pray.
Copyright 2015 Joann Nelander
Joann Nelander
lionessblog.com
Syrian Christians and the English Jew – The Washington Post
A Jewish publisher in England makes it his mission to save 2,000 Christian families in Syria.
Source: Syrian Christians and the English Jew – The Washington Post
Holy Screwtape! Young C.S. Lewis secretly worked with MI6? — GetReligion
I don’t know about you, but for years now I have grown increasingly skeptical about a lot of the books and other products that continue to roll out from the publishing industry that surrounds the life and work of the great Oxford don and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis.Don’t get me wrong. I have an entire room of my house that, basically, is dedicated to Eastern Orthodox icons, my family and C.S. Lewis. My son’s middle name is “Lewis” and we almost used “Jack” as his first name. I read “The Great Divorce” every year during Lent.But, honestly, it’s almost like we’ve reached the point where people would publish an annotated edition of this man’s grocery lists, should they become available. There are still fine books being published about the Narnian, but I’ve grown more skeptical about some of work produced by the C.S. Lewis industrial complex.And then someone comes up with an interesting twist in the life of Lewis. In this case, Christianity Today has just published an online essay — by scholar Harry Lee Poe of Union University here in Tennessee — that is a bit of a news scoop. It argues that, while no one is claiming Lewis ever ran around with a gun and a decoder ring, the young Oxford don appears to have done some work for MI6, as in Her Majesty’s Secret Service.Yes, you read that right. This kind of adds a new layer of meaning to discussions of an “Inner Ring” and talk about devilish high-ranking agents working with case officers to snare souls. Here is how it starts:
Source: Holy Screwtape! Young C.S. Lewis secretly worked with MI6? — GetReligion
Be Holy! 