Nature’s Wonderlands

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little windowsill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium...

Global Warming

“Here are a few noncontroversial findings from the [U.S. Energy Department] report—based on peer-reviewed literature from recent years— that might surprise Times readers. Global warming has risks, but also benefits, including greater agricultural productivity. We...

Crooked Things

“Crooked things may be as stiff and inflexible as straight: and men may be as positive in error as in truth.” – John Locke

The Quality of the Offended

The Quality of the Offended Some years ago I first heard the argument that the reason why unrepentant sinners must experience everlasting torment is due to the offense being against God, whose goodness is infinite. I considered the argument an outlier, not to be taken...

Conservatism

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?” – Abraham Lincoln