I was starting to lose consciousness when the door opened and a off-duty firefighter started to take care of me, applying pressure to the deep wound in my scalp. He apologized telling me he had to leave but assured me an EMS vehicle was on its way. I was left feeling afraid and vulnerable, but within a minute I heard the sound of an ambulance approaching.
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Obama’s decision not to accept the invitation of French President François Hollande, to march side-by-side in France’s historic protest against terrorism is repugnant. I use that term on purpose: When I was in sixth grade, I asked my teacher, Mr. Hoppe, “what’s the worst thing I can call a person,” to which he replied, “repugnant.”
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St John’s books are disarming in a way the others are not: Her characters inevitably, under the pressure of life-changing events, calmly pause for tea. Composed entirely of short chapters, filled largely with dialogue, her novels begin with the offhandedness of a soap opera and end with the wallop of an Ibsen play.
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If Christie is the man I think he is, he will not only go to the game but will give Jones another, even bigger, hug if the Cowboys beat the Packers in what will be the most highly rated professional football game of the year.
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Couldn’t it be argued that every time a priest signs a marriage license issued by the state he is virtually shrugging his shoulders at the reality of the fundamental moral and spiritual dispute?
Read MoreMary Jo Matthews gave of her herself and her talents tirelessly to St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, Georgia. She penned this poem just before her death. We pray that Mary rests in peace.
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Rather than publishing a style sheet or a simple mission statement, we offer this somewhat light-hearted list of what we would like The Christian Review to be and not to be.
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When well-written, informed, and insightful, reviews instruct all of us in how to better understand what we have read, seen, or heard, or point us in the direction of what it would profit us to read, see, or hear. Sensible people welcome that instruction.
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Knowing of the launch of The Christian Review, Alan Zou has written the following note to me, which I greatly appreciate. I look forward to publishing the thoughts of our Christian friends from China, both Evangelical and Catholic. In a quiet way, China is undergoing a spiritual revolution that will one day change the world.
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The demands on our “visual literacy,” as it is called, have multiplied exponentially. One 2013 study found that Americans spend 32 hours per week online, while the average global user spends 16 hours. That’s 19% of all the hours in a week, including time devoted to sleeping. If you subtract, say, 7 sleeping hours, the percentage becomes 27% for all waking hours, over one quarter of our waking time!
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