This Month in History

"When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned." Martin Niemöller. Quoted in the Congressional Record, 14, October 1968, Page 31,636.

Lowell's Blog: Ben Sira and the Fear of the Lord

Lowell's Blog: Ben Sira and the Fear of the Lord

Truth and Justice, and "The American Way"

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! ("Look! Up in the sky!" "It's a bird!" "It's a plane!" "It's Superman!")...

Considering the events of the last 8 years would Superman still fight for "the American way" ?

Truth and justice have been in short supply.


I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence
cometh my help. My help cometh even from the Lord, who
hath made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be
moved; and he that keepeth thee will not sleep. Behold, he
that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord
himself is thy keeper; the Lord is thy defence upon thy right
hand, so that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the
moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil;
yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in,
from this time forth for evermore.

O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Saint Paul A Good Episcopalian ?

Would Saint Paul have been a good Episcopalian ?

Read this passage from ! Corinthians and think about it.

1 Corinthians 5 (ASV)

1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:

8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

What do you think ?

What does Saint Paul mean when he says "...not even among the Gentiles..." ?
We know that the Caesars did such things.