The impressive opening chorus of ‘Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben’, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, comes straight to the point: the world is full of stubborn unbelievers, and however hard God punishes them, it does not help. The sermon for this tenth Sunday after Trinity is about the expulsion of the money-changers from... Read more
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem glauben. BWV 102
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | Creative, Heavenly, ReligionDeath of a Martyr
November 27 | Posted by mrossol | Christianity, ReligionI am not sure I agree completely with the author, but he has some points that bear consideration. ===== WSJ 11/26/2018 By Tunku Varadarajan North Sentinel Island lies 500 miles to the east of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is inhabited by 50 to 150 people—no one knows how many for sure—descended from Stone Age migrants from Africa... Read more
The Crucifix in Every Building?
August 11 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Christianity, Europe, Losing Freedom, Religion, Western CivilizationI am thinking through this one. I appreciate that a country is certainly shaped by it’s culture and religious history, but is this the best way to present it? But why should a people not want to retain their heritage? Hmm. ==== BY FRANCIS X. ROCCA AND DREW HINSHAW WSJ 9/10/2018 ROME—Lawmakers in Italy’s new parliamentary majority want a crucifix to hang in every... Read more
How Martin Luther Advanced Freedom
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | Christianity, Religion, Western CivilizationWSJ – 10/27/2017 Martin Luther was an unlikely revolutionary for human freedom. When the Augustinian monk hammered his “Ninety-Five Theses” to the Wittenberg Castle Church on Oct. 31, 1517— and unleashed the Protestant Reformation—he was still committed to the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church and retained many of the prejudices of European Christianity. Yet Luther’s personal experience of God’s love and... Read more
Where’s the Pope on Syria?
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Politically correct, Religion, The LeftI really wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this probably ends that hope forever. ========= WSJ 12/27/2016 If you are like this columnist, you may have missed the recent prayer vigil in front of St. Peter’s, which featured Pope Francis leading tens of thousands of the faithful in protest of the sickening Russian military strikes in Aleppo that have... Read more
