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Economics was dubbed ‘the Dismal Science’ by the famous Victorian historian Dr Thomas Carlyle. It was his response to the economist-cum-prophet of gloom Thomas Malthus, who claimed that a constantly expanding world population would cause perpetual shortages of resources and produce widespread misery. Milton Friedman (1912–006) Carlyle was well qualified to make . . . → Read More: The Dismal Science and the Prophets of Gloom  
Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 29
Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 28 A young woman buttonholed me at the market last week with a request to join her group to lobby the federal government to take more drastic action to combat climate change. She was a bit vague on how she believed the climate was changing, but she seemed to think global warming was the most likely . . . → Read More: The changeable climate of climate change When the United States was founded as a representative republic, governed upon democratic principles, Austria, and most German states, were members of the Holy Roman Empire; Russia was ruled by an empress, a.k.a. the Autocrat of All the Russias; France was ruled by an absolute monarch; the Middle East was largely under the despotic sway . . . → Read More: Reflections upon the Fourth of July
Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 27  This Sunday is the first Sunday of the month, so we will be having our usual in-gathering of household items and non-perishable foodstuffs for At Jacob’s Well, a Baltimore charity which provides supportive housing for adults who are chronically mentally ill and experiencing homelessness, with the hope of ending their homelessness by creating . . . → Read More: July In-gathering for At Jacob’s Well
Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 25 Somebody recently asked me why my sermons so often end with a reflection on our Christian obligation to love our fellow men. I replied that it is the subject of the most frightening passage in the whole of the Bible: The 13th Chapter of the First Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians. Some might . . . → Read More: The most frightening passage in the Bible A couple of weeks ago I found myself engaged in what diplomats would probably describe as ‘full and frank discussions’ with a fellow who objected to my clerical collar. He contended that the ‘separation church and state’ made it unconstitutional to display Christian symbols in public. ‘That’s positively Orwellian,’ I told him, ‘The First Amendment . . . → Read More: Orwell’s thought police aim to make us all ‘PC’ |
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