Mar
15
2010
Worth a Look 3.15.10
Dostoevksy in the context of Eastern Orthodoxy:
By considering the context of Eastern Orthodoxy in which Dostoevsky wrote, Williams enables the reader to look more perceptively into the depictions that emerge from Dostoevsky’s literary and religious imagination. While Dostoevsky’s writing does not offer the direct gaze of the Orthodox icon, neither does it mime the askance view of Holbein’s dead Christ. Instead, it is “a sort of icon,” a genuinely searching and demanding literature that is deeply indebted to the Christian faith.
Did Jim Sikes’ Prius actually have an accelerator problem? The rest of the story:
Now here’s the potential smoking gun: Sikes told the reporters that “I was reaching down and trying to pull up on the gas pedal. It didn’t move at all; it was stationary.” That’s awfully daring for somebody who insisted he didn’t even want to take a hand off his steering wheel, notwithstanding that he did so to hold his phone. …
Have we arrived at the end of the road for pro-life Democrats?
What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”
CJ Mahaney: “Hard Thoughts about God – in Parenting”
You have the privilege of introducing them to God the Father and describing the ways in which he is different from you, different from all sinful fathers, and how in any way you are like him it’s only because of grace that you reflect him. See Luke 11:11-13.
Your honest confession of your sin to your children will protect them from having hard thoughts about you or God.