Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Friday, January 9, 2026

Design To Function

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     I’ve done several kinds of design. They all have unique requirements and constraints. But they share a single universal imperative: the...
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Saturday, January 3, 2026

A Poignant Thought

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     Happy New Year!      For some the prospects the New Year offers are offset by the frustrations of the year before. That’s particularl...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Could We, Should We Dept.

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     Actor Kevin Sorbo asks:      Muslim militants post selfies with thousands of dead civilians after conquering major Sudanese city! So...
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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Toward The End Of A Difficult Year

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     This will be brief...I think. With Christmas Day behind us, a single week remains in which to assess this Year of Our Lord 2020, to try...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Multiplications: A Sunday Rumination 2020-08-02

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     [This essay first appeared at Liberty’s Torch on August 3, 2014. As a huge number of Americans are in an unprecedented degree of need,...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

On Charity: A Sunday Rumination

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     Imagine the following conversation: Charitable Canvasser: Give me money. FWP: Why? CC: I need it. FWP: And why should that conc...
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Monday, March 26, 2018

Ultra-Quickies: Team Toni Anne

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     If you read this piece, you may have been waiting for the GoFundMe link for Toni Anne, the leukemia-stricken young woman I mentioned t...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Americans In The Year Of Our Lord 2017

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     Courtesy of Ace of Spades, I just heard this remarkable statement, made in the Seventies by Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair, for t...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Christian Ethics In Practice

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     Now that I no longer solve other people’s problems for a living, I can allow my thought processes to prowl: to range hither and yon am...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Recent Development in re “A Warning”

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     If you’ve read “A Warning,” consider the matter as serious as do I, and have wondered what would come of it, here’s an update.      J...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

A Warning

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     The charitable impulse can easily be transformed into a fury that sets heads to rolling.      My parish – St. Louis de Montfort in Sou...
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Sunday, December 18, 2016

When Good People Do Bad Things

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     Yes, it’s a play of sorts on the title of this book. It was a very popular “inspirational” when it was first published. However, as th...
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

The Ultimate Monopolist

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     There are days I find myself wondering, “Would the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear war be any worse than this?” It can take me a whil...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Degradations: A Sunday Rumination

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     It may be that there are things Man was not meant to know, but of this I am certain: There are things no man wants to know. Yet some ...
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