I recall with much clarity when, as an eighth-grader being taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph, it was announced in class that the Jesuits were coming to town. The…
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Sex, Sex , SEX, SEX , SEX, SEX , S-E-X! There, ave I got your attention? Actually, I’m not doing anything that Madison Avenue doesn’t do with us every day with commercials and advertisements. But even…
Could we be on the edge of an amazing convergence of faith and reason; one that we never could have expected? Could Al Gore, the new, if second, environmentalist Nobel…
This is the second book I have read by Xinran, a Chinese woman journalist and broadcaster who now lives in England. The first one was about just one Chinese…
By now it should be well known by the lucky readers of these erudite pages that Dragon City Journal has little more than contempt for George W. Bush and his…
When the fifteen hours of Ken Burns documentary of World War II is over later this week we can return to the endless Bush Iraq War that is already longer…
I had just finished saying, sotto voce, to Myo, my guide from Rangoon, that I was surprised at his candor about politics during our dinner at a street-side restaurant when, suddenly, all…
The times have rarely seemed so “biblical” since the times were, well, biblical. Those great, dualistic themes—good and evil, the godly and the diabolical, believers and infidels, heaven and earth,…
Last week Hollywood released yet another Jodie Foster “vehicle.” Jodie is Hollywood’s favorite female victim, and Jodie the victim usually gets her revenge and sometimes an Oscar. Now that Charles…
“Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on…