Playing The Cult Card

One of the things that liberals did successfully for quite some time was play the race card. One of the things that conservatives (eventually) did in response was name the practice, calling it something like “playing the race card.” Little tricks of illusion and distraction in politics operate much the same way that tricks of …

Ezra Nehemiah 18

Introduction: Returning to the book of Nehemiah, we find the city walls built, but the city within is still not populated, and is still not prosperous. Building a city involves more than building the infrastructure, and repentance brings gladness together with the sorrow. The Text: Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, …

Our Lady of Westminster

Marian obedience, the jewelry of God, has adorned     the gracious necks of many women,          hearts rejoicing in God their Savior.                 Fiat mihi. Margaret Wilson, tied to a stake,     struggled and drowned,     filled with water,           yet full of grace.Marie Durant—behold this handmaiden of the Lord—      spent 38 years in a forsaken tower by the sea,      rather than …