CNA has a great article summarizing Archbishop Gomez’s call to incorporate faith into politics. The current political climate and the hish stakes for believers concerning freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, only serve to illustrate how important it is to hold a position in “unity of life” in which the faith shapes “how we live […]
Tag: life
The Cedar of Lebanon – Peace and Reconciliation
Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI delivered an address on peace, and used the cedar tree as a metaphor for communicating his key ideas. He opened the address by saying this to Lebanon’s president: With you, I have just planted a cedar of Lebanon, the symbol of your beautiful country. In looking at this sapling, and thinking […]
Is it possible to be happy with this life?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71HzYChzTbA] The question: “Is it possible to be happy with this life?” is a line from a video produced by Gnarly Bay productions. I don’t know much about Gnarly Bay, except that they produce excellent narrative and visual material. The answer to the question seems to be: yes, it is possible, in NATURE fundamentally, through […]
Expert on Humanity?
Often the recognition that human beings are different than the rest of nature, incredibly, raises many objectives from environmentally minded people. I experienced this directly when I mention the extraordinary human capacity to affect reality, be it for good or evil, at the Bioneers conference a few weeks ago. But does the recognition of human […]