As I observed a few of weeks ago, Charlotte and I have watched more television during the past couple of months than at any other time during our lives. And closer acquaintance with the boob tube tends to get a fellow thinking. For example, it seems strange to me that folks who so often complain . . . → Read More: Time to tell Hollywood: Physician, heal thyself
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 Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIII 33  The Flower Committee is looking for new recruits to help beautify the church for the Sunday services and to join us in planning the floral decorations for the great Holy Days of Christmas and Easter. No experience is necessary. All you need is “a good eye” and we will teach you the rest. Men are . . . → Read More: Come, bloom with us  The most profound social change that has taken place over the past half–century or so has been the abandonment of moral absolutes in favor of “situation ethics”—ethics that change according to the situation in which they are being applied. In the early 1960s, for instance, John Profumo, the British defense minister, resigned his office in . . . → Read More: Time for a hypocritical tribute to virtue … ? Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIII 32 Commentator Charles Murray recently warned readers of The Wall Street Journal that capitalism—the economic philosophy responsible for America’s greatness—has image problems. People, he said, have been disgusted by the banking and finance scandals said to be responsible for the current severe recession. Capitalism’s image has been so badly tarnished, he claimed, that some of . . . → Read More: Karl says ‘Marxism’ is not the same as Marx Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIII 31 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: A virtue you can’t do without Not even our churches are immune from the effects of today’s consumer culture. Shopping is by no means confined to the mall and the Internet. “Church shopping” is also a popular pastime. People today, it seems, approach the business of finding a church in much the same way that they would go about buying a . . . → Read More: Shopping about for politically correct sin Here is this weeks Newsletter: St._Stephen’s News XXIII 30 |
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