The Wandering Heretic

It is now official!  Taylor Hicks is the 2006 American Idol.  My guilty pleasure apparently was the guilty pleasure of a large percentage of the USA population as well.  And yes, I voted last night.  I literally laid on my redial button from 9:00 until 1:00 AM trying to vote (and getting through about only [...]

William Stringfellow was the only layman on a panel to interview Karl Barth on one of his few visits to America. During that interview, Stringfellow asked a question that fascinated Barth. Knowing Barth’s conflicts with the Nazi party during the war as well as the present (at that time) civil crisis in America, Stringfellow’s question [...]

This scene is soon to be a common part of the landscape come the end of May, 2006. Half-way houses and other facilities of good will and aid to the socially crippled will hopefully be in place before then.

I have often wondered what form Caine would take in the present time if he was a Christian.
Well, now I have found him. He is disguised as Willie Pham, a janitor who works in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Instead of the sign of the dragon and tiger peaking out from the forearms of his shirt sleeves though, Willie has the marks of Christ shining from his spirit and his life.

Even so, after I received the boxed set of slides, I set them aside, planning to show them to my children at some later point. That viewing was probably scheduled two days beyond Telliard de Chardin’s Omega point. The slides sat untouched in my basement for several years. I figured what was boring then would be boring now.

Now my father is dying of cancer. What was boring then is now precious and beyond value.

There is currently a movement underway, at least in Cleveland, that is encouraging the Vatican to beautify and then raise to sainthood Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan. For those who don’t know, Kazel and Donovan were two of the four missionaries killed in El Salvador in 1980. Both had strong Cleveland connections, so perhaps the “sainthood” movement is more localized than universal. Knowing the tenacity of Clevelanders, however, I fully expect them to succeed. Some part of me hopes they do not.