Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

Mr. Davis feels that using his belt, and smacking the kids is the proper approach to child rearing. We aren't talking spankings that you hear about. We are talking a man that throws his anger around, spanks with the belt, and demands the respect he is due. Here is a comment I got earlier about this ...

A month or so ago I came upon a blog called Grace's Journal. It is the compelling account of a young husband and father's battle with cancer. It's also well worth your time to read. I don't think I've ever before read anything so saturated in depth and understanding of the absolute sovereignty of Go...

As we begin the first day of this Novena to St. Joseph for Alcoholics, we pray: O chaste Spouse of Mary most holy, glorious Saint Joseph, great was the trouble and anguish of thy heart when thou wast minded to put away privately thine inviolate Spouse, yet thy joy was unspeakable, when the surpassin...

I wrote a lot last week about Orual and about self-deception. This week, I want to let other words stand in this space instead. I don't think I have much to add to either of these quotes. The first is from the last chapter of Till We Have Faces, after Orual describes the series of dreams near the en...

The Gospel Reading for the Second Sunday of Lent is a familiar one: it is the Transfiguration of Jesus. Mark 9:2-10: "Jesus took Peter, James, and Johnand led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.And he was transfigured before them,and his clothes became dazzling white,such as no fuller on ea...

Chapter 2 of John Gray’s book is divided into 15 subsections. Section 1: At The Masked Ball In popular psychology we read about all the different masks we wear as we go about our daily business, e.g., that of parent, teacher, bus driver, patient, student or whatever, and, indeed, we change those m...

Children Seriously Affected When Parent Suffers From Depression Life is hard for the children of a parent suffering from depression. Children take on an enormous amount of responsibility for the ill parent and for other family members. It is therefore important for the health services to be aware of...

Ash Wednesday - "Stone" Jesus, help me. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. (i Tim. i, 4) Prayer is a gift from God. Prayer is conversation with God our Father. Tonight, Jesus goes into the Garden to pray. Jesus goes to talk His Father. Jesus goes ...

Can there be a more vital message than this? In the midst of life with confusion, trial, suffering, tribulation - I am increasingly coming to realise that the only thing that can meet that longing is God's passion for His people. So I was thrilled and greatly encouraged to read Terry Virgo's latest ...