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The Adventure of Living

‘Out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground.
Here it is back.'
His master said to him in reply, 'You wicked, lazy servant!
So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant
and gather where I did ...
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Accessing the New Creation

Most evenings  I contentedly watch right-wing television, hearing the old story one more time, told by the same persons, with familiar graphic illustrations, a pro-life father about to be imprisoned by the F. B I. for protesting abortion, a trans ...
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/ / Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

Backwardism and Progress

It is remarkable that an Argentinian from Italy can think of a neologism that is translated “Backwardism,” proposed evidently as an antonym to progress, which is what the pope endorses and encourages.  The dynamic of Backwardism versus Progressivism manages to ...
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/ / Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

God Permits Evil

Thus says the LORD to His anointed, Cyrus,
whose right hand I grasp,
subduing nations before Him,
and making kings run in His service,
opening doors before him
and leaving the gates unbarred:
For the sake of Jacob, my servant,
of Israel, my chosen one, Isaiah 45:1, ...
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THE 42nd LEWIS TOLKIEN DINNER

Community Center of Christ the King Catholic Church 8017 Preston Rd, Dallas 75225 7 p.m. Check-in - Black tie optional Click Here to Reserve Your Seat or Table ...
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/ / Authors, Featured

Can Faith Survive Socialism?

The obvious answer is no.   But first, what is socialism?  At the heart of socialism as a political movement from the beginning was distrust of individualism and a complementary conviction that the conceiving of culture as a collective whole organized ...
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/ / Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

Reading the Letters of the Apostle Peter

Four Classes: September 24th, October 2nd, October 9th, October 16th, 7 p.m. This is a Zoom only class.  Attend by clicking on this link ...
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/ / Dr. Patrick, Events, Featured

The Working Class and Others

One definition is: those who have nothing to sell but their labor.  But this immediately degenerates into an unmanageable ambiguity.    This is not simply the lineman and plumber; it may include the computer programmer and the bank clerk and the ...
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/ / Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

Wrong Order

Last week it was suggested that everything matters because everything is properly an expression of the order of God’s own glory, with glory identified as the transcendent ground not only of ideas but of every event, action, and object, its ...
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/ / Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk