Monday, December 29, 2025

Mediocrity and the Human Heart

I once read an article entitled, “The Devil Wants You to Settle in Your Relationship”; quite frankly, I do not think it could be...

The Good Shepherd, Who Never Leaves His Flock

Has any one of you ever been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively...

A Protestant Gentleman, Predestined?

He was a good man, in the old Scottish Presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward. - Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary Leslie Hamilton Neatby who died...

Intolerant of Truth

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around...

Learning Death from History

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.  So declared the famed historian George Santayana in 1863, and there is a...

Sometimes, Alas, Arguing is Futile

Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. That’s...

The O Antiphons and the Last Seven Days of Advent

On December 17th we begin the seven days of proximate preparation for Christmas, analogous to the more familiar twelve days of Christmas, which follow...

ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – A Gift from the Greeks?

Cold Winds ESG is the fashionable kid on the corporate governance block, and the cause of plenty of buzz among thought, political and business leaders. ...

Palm and Passion Sunday

And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom, and the earth shook, and the rocks were split...

Wherefore, Brazil?

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual...