The Good News Is …
Led Pelvis
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Something I Came across in “First Things”
Alyosha Karamazov suffers tormenting doubt because the miracle he expected does not occur. But when he finds himself engaged in active love in consoling Grushenka, he discovers a faith that is compatible with uncertainty. That…
Today’s One-Liner (#113)
When we keep pointing a finger of judgment at others, we are teaching our mind a lasting habit of condemnation. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 160
Testimony
Celia Farber’s work is journalism at its best—solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch, and thereby helping right them, and doing so with uncommon literary grace (and flashes of a devastating humor)….
Something I Came across in The Spectator
The left knows that history is leaving them behind. That the momentum is no longer with their racial hucksterism, gender lunacy and cancel culture, but rather with those millions of good, working people who are…
Today’s One-Liner (#112)
“He knows how to read better than any one; he gets at the substance of a book directly; he tears out the heart of it.” –Mrs. Knowles, on Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, The Life…
Today’s One-Liner (#111)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. –Yogi Berra
Advice from 1921
Therefore, be slow to speak and slow to go to those places where people speak, because in many words the spirit is poured out like water; by your amiability to all, purchase the right really…
Today’s One-Liner (#110)
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from the woodpecker on the outside as from the termites within. –Vance Havner, quoted in Karen Hall, The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of…
Today’s One-Liner (#109)
Keep an eye primarily on yourself and admonish yourself instead of your friends. –Thomas á Kempis, The Imitation of Christ