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We agree with CS Lewis when, in his Preface to Mere Christianity, he states that “the reader should be warned that I offer no help to anyone who is hesitating between two Christian denominations. You will not learn from me whether you ought to become an Anglican, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, or a Roman Catholic.” CS Lewis compares his Mere Christianity to a central hall openi...
The rabbis in the Book of Legends, which are moral excerpts from the Talmud, teach that there are four kinds of men:
The average man, like those in Sodom, who says, “Mine is mine, and your is yours.”
The ignorant man who says, “Mine is yours, and yours is mine.”
The pious man who says, “Mine is yours, and yours is yours.”
The wicked man who says, “Yours is mine, a...
Is it wise to complain? Epictetus observes: “If someone dies young, he blames the gods because he is being taken before his time. If someone lingers on into extreme old age, he too blames the gods.” “Despite this, at the approach of death, he wants to stay alive; he sends for the doctors and begs him to do all he can.” “It is quite remarkable to see how people want neither to...
As Pope Benedict XVI writes: “The times in which Pope Leo lived were very difficult: constant barbarian invasions, the gradual weakening of imperial authority in the West, and the long, drawn-out social crisis forced the Bishop of Rome” “to play an important role in both civil and political events.” “In a period of profound crisis, Leo the Great knew how to make himself close...
Doris Kappelhoff was born in 1922, she was both a leading movie star and singer from the 1940’s through the early 1960’s, when many movies were musicals. In her youth she was hoping to be a dancer, but when she broke her leg when the car she was riding in collided with a freight train, she instead became a singer. She started singing in the hospital out of boredom, and since ...
