Protesting the classical understanding of marriage, a young man said to me, “What two guys have with each other is the same as what I have with my wife.”
I take him at his word. If he insists that what he and the young woman “have with each other” has nothing to do with the polarity and complementarity of the sexes, who am I to insist that it does?
I am still thinking about my friend’s anecdote about the students in his class who thought life had no meaning.
How can any one religion be correct when each claims to be correct?
Pagan natural law theory is non-historical. Human nature cannot change, and its condition has not changed. We are what we are, and we are as we are, forever and ever.
It was not in your power not to be born of Adam: it is in your power to believe in Christ.
If you are one of those who are as yet unclean, ... unfit for sacrifice, and of the gentile portion – then run with the Star, and bear your Gifts with the Magi: Gold, frankincense, and myrrh, as to a King, to God, and to One who is dead for you. With Shepherds glorify Him; with Angels join in chorus; with Archangels sing hymns.
A friend who teaches at another university tells me that recently he made his class read Ursula LeGuin’s novel science fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven. He writes,
