We're enjoying thirty-plus degree holiday weather (90+ degree fahrenheit) so Wisdom (personified in my wife) has prevailed upon me to postpone for a week the fourth in the series, Christian Hope in an age of pax Americana. Instead let a…
(The third in a series on Christian hope in an age of Pax Americana). IN THIS AND THE FOLLOWING TWO W E E K L Y W O R D S , my intention is to: · inquire how we…
(The second of a series on Christian hope in an age of 'Pax Americana') Last week's W e e k l y W o r d obviously raised an issue close to people's hearts, judging by the widespread response. But…
It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world. So wrote Robert Kagan in "Paradise and Power", as the Second Gulf War was being…
Recently I indulged in a spot of navel-gazing in Greece. I travelled to Delphi, one of antiquity's most sacred locations, and there - ta-DAAAAH!!!! - I beheld the world's belly button! I kid you not. The clear inscription on the…
