Still I Will Follow

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Still I Will Follow

The day was like any other for one of a panel of judicial officials named Dionysius. He had left his family at home for another day on the grind. Another case to hear - another lunatic to dispatch; Nothing old, nothing new - so he must have thought. "We have another madman introducing some new heresy," one of his fellow magistrates informed him. "This one claims to know the Unknown God." A mixture of cynical humor and apathetic curiosity was in the atmosphere as they prepared for the inquisition.

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Subhumanity - The Philosophy of the Absurd

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Subhumanity - The Philosophy of the Absurd

The present age is, in a profound sense, an age of absurdity. Poets and dramatists, painters and sculptors proclaim and depict the world as a disjointed chaos, and man as a dehumanized fragment of that chaos. Politics, whether of the right, the left, or the center, can no longer be viewed as anything but an expedient whereby universal disorder is given, for the moment, a faint semblance of order; pacifists and militant crusaders are united in an absurd faith in the feeble powers of man to remedy an intolerable situation by means which can only make it worse.

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The Hard Line

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The Hard Line

If you have never studied the Rule of St. Benedict (known as the Father of Western Monasticism) you are missing a rich lesson in Christian discipline and living a dedicated life. But Benedict's code is not the only example of rigid adherence to discipline in our great religion by any means. There are a plethora of applications we can find in daily living that demonstrate clearly how we are to live dedicated and structured lives before God. The modern Christian man living in America has a general lack of self control, and a raging appetite for anything but religious discipline.

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