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2016-11-22T21:18:14-04:00

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I love this more than I can say

Last updated on: November 22, 2016 at 9:18 pm By Dave Griffey

With all due respect to Leo Sayer, this just brings a smile to my face every time I see it: Santa of the year award! And just in time for that most wonderful time of the year. Read more

Inspiring Stories

2016-11-22T11:04:50-04:00

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Why Trump Won; Case Study 3B: Multi-Cultural intolerance of the Christian West

Last updated on: November 22, 2016 at 11:04 am By Dave Griffey

Case in point. I get Columbus Day. After all, he’s just one more former hero who will soon go the way of the butter churn. But Good Friday? Adding it to the growing list of Christian and Western terms that need to be erased from the pylons and obelisks? Is there any other name for it, or holiday in the world that happens to be on that particular day every year? There’s a purposeful dishonesty about it, a whiff... Read more

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2016-11-22T16:14:52-04:00

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A Dominican Friars’ Christmas Video

Last updated on: November 22, 2016 at 4:14 pm By Dave Griffey

You have to love it. It’s not that season yet (technically, that begins with Christmas, not Black Friday), but this does get the old Yuletide feelings flowing. Read more

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2016-11-22T10:15:21-04:00

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What? Trump won’t try to send Hillary Clinton to jail?

Last updated on: November 22, 2016 at 10:15 am By Dave Griffey

Really? Uh huh. How many people actually believed these things? For my part, I don’t know that she did anything that was actually illegal. That she demonstrated gross negligence and incompetence, and that she presided over some disastrous results of her department’s policies and practices is, to my eyes, more than enough. I’m not into this modern ‘buck never got here’ approach to responsibility. When Eisenhower drafted a possible response to the D-Day invasion on the chance that it... Read more

2016-11-22T08:32:42-04:00

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In case we’re not clear about abortion

Last updated on: November 22, 2016 at 8:32 am By Dave Griffey

Pope Francis cuts through the clutter: “I was thinking on the attitude of sending the kids back before they are born, this horrendous crime, they send them back because it’s better like that, because it’s more comfortable, it’s a great responsibility – a very grave sin.” Yes, we should be about more than just calling abortion sin, and that includes helping women who are pregnant and working to improve conditions for women overall. But it also includes renouncing the cultural... Read more

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2016-11-22T08:32:15-04:00

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Heartbroken

Last updated on: November 22, 2016 at 8:32 am By Dave Griffey

Prayers for the children and families of the horrible school bus accident in Tennessee. Every parent’s worst nightmare. God’s peace and strength for the families, parents, and all loved ones. Also, prayers for those in Japan facing the aftermath of the earthquake. May nothing close to what we experienced last time happen again. Read more

Prayers

2016-11-21T20:54:42-04:00

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Prayers for my Mom: Updated

Last updated on: November 21, 2016 at 8:54 pm By Dave Griffey

She has to have some tests tomorrow. Hopefully nothing major, naturally. Prayers would be appreciated. Merciful Lord, visit us in our time of need and affliction; and as you healed Jairus’ daughter and raised her from her bed of infirmity, visit your servant Lorena, and deliver her from sickness and pain. For you alone have born the sickness and affliction of our world and with you nothing is impossible. For you are all-merciful and to you we ascribe glory... Read more

Prayers

2016-11-21T18:48:57-04:00

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An important reminder

Last updated on: November 21, 2016 at 6:48 pm By Dave Griffey

If you posted quotes about Trump being elected and hoping he does well, but are calling for his impeachment before he’s even in office, then I think words mean different things to you and me. For my part, I hope the better parts of what he wants to accomplish succeed, and I hope the parts of his plans that I disagree with don’t succeed. Same as Obama, 2008. I didn’t want him to succeed in some general way, just the... Read more

Musings

2016-11-21T19:29:54-04:00

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Pray for our police

Last updated on: November 21, 2016 at 7:29 pm By Dave Griffey

After four different officers were shot across the US on the same day. I remember that old scene in movie 48 Hours, when the police chief says that anyone who would kill a police officer represents an even greater threat to the average citizen. I assumed it was true back then. If it was, I don’t think it is anymore. O Almighty God, Whose great power and eternal Wisdom embraces the universe, Watch over all policemen and Law enforcement officers... Read more

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2016-11-21T16:27:42-04:00

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How Donald Trump unified millions of Americans

Last updated on: November 21, 2016 at 4:27 pm By Dave Griffey

Ross Douthat reflects. In the end, Donald Trump spoke strongly about immigrants. Muslim, Hispanic or otherwise. He said many disgusting things about women, veterans, the disabled. He acted like a drunk frat boy when he wasn’t acting like a stereotypical bigot and sexist. And yet he won. Well, he didn’t win. Hillary lost. And lost big. A candidate with everything going for her, with every establishment institution behind her, and she lost against a caricature of one of the worst candidates... Read more

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