I am not sure I agree completely with the author, but he has some points that bear consideration. ===== WSJ 11/26/2018 By Tunku Varadarajan North Sentinel Island lies 500 miles to the east of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is inhabited by 50 to 150 people—no one knows how many for sure—descended from Stone Age migrants from Africa... Read more
Archive for the ‘Christianity’ Category
The Crucifix in Every Building?
August 11 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Christianity, Europe, Losing Freedom, Religion, Western CivilizationI am thinking through this one. I appreciate that a country is certainly shaped by it’s culture and religious history, but is this the best way to present it? But why should a people not want to retain their heritage? Hmm. ==== BY FRANCIS X. ROCCA AND DREW HINSHAW WSJ 9/10/2018 ROME—Lawmakers in Italy’s new parliamentary majority want a crucifix to hang in every... Read more
Pence at the Knesset
January 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Christianity, IsraelNeeds no additional comment. Pence speaks for himself. ========= WSJ 1/24/2018 As I walked out of the Knesset following Vice President Mike Pence’s Monday afternoon address, an Israeli cameraman turned to me with a jovial expression. Speaking in Hebrew, he asked me about the man whose speech he had just heard: “Was that the messiah, or the vice president of the United States?”... Read more
The Salvation of ‘Napalm Girl’
December 23 | Posted by mrossol | ChristianityThere are a few images that are forever burned in one’s memory: for me the image of ‘napalm girl’ is one such. And I, too, have wondered what happened to her after the picture? What a precious ending and picture of the God of grace and forgiveness. ========= By Kim Phuc Phan Thi WSJ 12/22/2017 You may not recognize me now, but you almost... Read more
How Martin Luther Advanced Freedom
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | Christianity, Religion, Western CivilizationWSJ – 10/27/2017 Martin Luther was an unlikely revolutionary for human freedom. When the Augustinian monk hammered his “Ninety-Five Theses” to the Wittenberg Castle Church on Oct. 31, 1517— and unleashed the Protestant Reformation—he was still committed to the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church and retained many of the prejudices of European Christianity. Yet Luther’s personal experience of God’s love and... Read more
