In the winter of 1977, a tragedy was painfully and painstakingly unfurled in the Monroe County, New York courtroom of Judge Hyman Maas. Eleven months earlier, on April 27, 1976, a Roman Catholic nun and school teacher, Sister Maureen Murphy, surreptitiously gave birth to a baby boy at the Our Lady of Lourdes parish convent in Brighton, just outside Rochester. It was alleged that she then shoved a pair of panties into the infant’s mouth, asphyxiating him, and left his remains in a wastebasket. (more…)

Do some word association with me. Don’t ruminate, just consider the first things that come into your head when I say the following phrase:

“We have to be in and not of the world”

Got it?  

I’ve heard that phrase all my life as I grew up in the buckle of the Bible belt. Christians are supposed to be in but not of the world. Now seriously, no one is looking. No one will know. Do you honestly know what that means? I mean could you explain it to someone who doesn’t know Christianese? Would you be able to recognize someone who was in the world but not of the world? What would their life look like? What would they not do? What would they do? (more…)

Three cheers for the Navy Seals! The big story this past week was the taking by Pirates of a Danish ship with an American crew off the coast of Somalia. These pirates held the ship’s captain hostage for many days, demanding a large ransom for the brave man’s life, while cruelly distracting our President from more important matters of state, such as hosting balls, rock concerts and parties, etc., at the White House. But on Easter Sunday, Navy Seal sharpshooters killed three of the Pirates and setting their captive free. (more…)

We just got back on the road after a bit of home time. We only had four days at home, four precious days to get our gardens ready for spring/summer and do other springtime chores. Yeah, right… The night we pulled in the temperature was in the high 60’s. The next day it promptly snowed – not deep snow – just 4 inches or so, but certainly enough to derail our plans.

Now of course (more…)

A friend, Robin Phillips, sent an article that he has been working on which I thought would be more appropriate for the Crux. I also thought at this juncture it would be good to look at President Obama’s first 60 days in office. Prior to the election I had expressed some of my views in Barack Obama, “Joe the Plumber” and Donald Miller, Who Am I Voting For? and a few others. So far, President Obama has done pretty much as I had expected only at a greater speed than I have anticipated. For all the Evangelical Left’s claimed concern about the defenseless and the poor the first one’s Obama has gone after are the defenseless preborn. One of his first acts was to provide Federal funding for abortions overseas. On the other end of the spectrum his “stimulus package” includes extensive health care rationing for Seniors:

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

He does not seem to be fairing well on the moral front. Robin Phillips comments on the economic front with:

SPEND, SPEND, SPEND: OBAMA’S SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (more…)