Today’s One-Liner (#322)
The Bible has always been restricted in communist countries because it is an agent for change. –A pastor, quoted in Robert Royal, The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in…
Month: January 2026
Peace Work
… I used to remind my friends that agitating for peace and actually bringing it about are not necessarily the same. Stirring up passions, provoking animosity, and polarizing opposition may sometimes produce short-term gains, but…
Today’s One-Liner (#321)
With detachment, life’s ups and downs need hardly affect our security at all. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 136
A Brother’s Gift
To the Jews who, in the sixties, envied the Black Power Movement; who in the nineties envied the Palestinians; who weep at Exodus but jeer at the Israel Defense Forces; who nod when Tevye praises…
Today’s One-Liner (#320)
The Jew is not only made and instructed but also commanded to live in the world and to enjoy those things that God permitted him—among the chiefest joys: that of belonging. –David Mamet, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism,…
In Service to the Revolution
In the twenties, young people of education willingly gathered information for the authorities and the secret police, and thought they were doing so for “the good of the Revolution,” for the sake of the mysterious…
Today’s One-Liner (#319)
Courage and victory come to us only when we resolve to make sacrifices. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased To See the Purpose: Essential Speeches, 20
Take Your Pick
What is the essence of Christ’s ministry? He teaches men “not to commit stupidities.” All of Tolstoy’s brutal empiricism and aristocratic impatience resound in that extraordinary answer. The Dostoevskyan Christ, on the contrary, teaches men…
Today’s One-Liner (#318)
When the work of art invades our consciousness, something within us catches flame. –George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, 45