An interesting article from Zenit regarding a report from England that the lack of connection to their religious tradition is harming civil society, and it points to the Catholic contention that religious faith underlies moral and social values.
Without the rock of religious faith, the values drift unencumbered, rootless, and rarely are able to exert the kind of influence on the behavior or citizens to enhance the civil society, especially regarding the treatment of its poorest and most vulnerable members.
For many years novelists have aspired to write the ‘Great American Novel’, to capture in a book the vast imagined world from American eyes and within America’s heart.
Many were offered as candidates—from most of the great fiction writers of the age—but few made the mark, and it is no longer even mentioned much, mainly, I think, because we have the movies and the ‘Great American Movie’ gets made regularly and the latest is Charley Wilson’s War.
It is a true story of how very fallible people, imbued with the promise of the American Dream—freedom for all—took on repression in a country far away and won, then as quickly lost it all to the whirlwind of the terrorists of 9/11.
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.