says Father Des Reid in answer to the question: What would you say if you could give advice to your young self just as you begin seminary. (As recorded on Andrew Denton’s “Elders” series).

A funny spin on a Sherlock Holmes quote by Gordon Cheng:

“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance.”

-Sherlock Holmes on the value of reading liberal theologians.

A handful of powerful corporations such as Cargill, Ciba Geigy, Dow, Monsanto and Zeneca dominate agricultural research today, and they also control the global seed and agricultural chemical markets…Many of the seeds developed or modified by American corporations were collected in the southern hemisphere, but no royalties are ever paid to local farmers in that hemisphere nor claimed by their governments. But when those farmers use germplasm over which American seed companies have patents, or even seek to reuse the seeds in new plantings, they are immediately accused by the U.S. government of piracy and of violating intellectual property rights.

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This war will not be won by bullets. It will be won by brokenness and humility and sacrifice. It will be won when we identify with the children in our suffering rather than with the abortionist in his killing.

John Piper in his sermon Fasting for the Safety of the Little Ones.

“At every stage, Timothy’s career violates everything we think we know about the history of Christianity…” To see whole quote Continue Reading »

Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout & Holy Life.

A great passage from J.K. Rowlings latest (and last?) Harry-Potterized volume, where Dumbledore comments on a rewriting of one of the stories in The Tales of Beedle the Bard and the hilarious reaction of children the wizarding world over: Continue Reading »

At the risk of passing on an excerpt (however short) that might be over people’s heads, please read. Continue Reading »