How God is in the world
Longtime Cranach reader and commenter Dan Kempen “got” yesterday’s post Makoto Fujimura on art, paganism, and worship. His reflections are worth considering in themselves: God is in the world, not...
View ArticleSister Earth is trying to kill us
From Lutheran Satire‘s Hans Fiene: The pope thinks we should view the earth as our sister. I don’t, mainly because I have a sister. While my sister and I have had our disagreements over the years, I...
View ArticleIf you embrace nature, embrace natural law
The Pope’s encyclical “Laudato Si” is winning fulsome praise from the left for its embrace of environmentalism. But, as the editors of The Stream point out, those folks aren’t saying anything about 11...
View ArticleWe mustn’t call breastfeeding “natural”
An article in the medical journal Pediatrics says that it is “unethical” to describe breastfeeding as “natural.” “Coupling nature with motherhood,” says the study, “can inadvertently support...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Mind, Soul, & Body Go in Different Directions
Love in the Ruins (1972) is a dark, comic, disturbing, and yet profoundly Christian novel by the late Catholic author Walker Percy. “It’s all there in that one book,” said William F. Buckley, “what’s...
View ArticleWhat God Are We Trying to Be?
We often note how human beings "play God" and, following the Serpent's temptation (Gen. 3:5), want to "be God." But what kind of God do we want to be? We don't want to be like the real God, who...
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