Author: Yvonne Lorenzo

For those of us who love peace, whether religious, irreligious, or Libertarians, the news lately is discouraging. Recent analyses and articles include: Israel Threatens Assad: “If You Continue Allowing Iran To Operate Out Of Syria, It Will Be Your End” Military and non-military escalation into nuclear war. The Warmakers Is Israel Readying for War? Netanyahu Calls for War to ‘Stop’ Iran, Says ‘Better Now Than Later’ Unproven Allegations Against Trump and Putin Are Risking Nuclear War             Perhaps one bit of good news that dialog continues is this: Israel’s Netanyahu to be guest of honour at Russia’s Victory Day Celebration … Continue reading →

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John 1:5 – And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. For me, there is something about the night sky with its countless brilliant stars that evokes feelings of wonder, delight, astonishment, humility and worship. I cannot explain these feelings to anyone who does not have a sense of the numinous, as C.S. Lewis put it, to someone who is convinced there is nothing sacred and that there is no God; perhaps it would be like explaining music to someone who was born deaf or color to one who was born blind, someone too stubborn to … Continue reading →

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“Our Father, which art in Washington”: on Jesus’s rejection of political power I frequent The Saker website for analysis that is insightful and frequently intelligently contradicts the mainstream media narrative found on the primary promoted Google News sites and television networks. For example, Saker posted on the recent escalation in Syria that should be required reading for anyone who wants to make sense of recent events and possible dangerous outcomes. Yet in addition to such political and military analysis, The Saker also posts Orthodox Christian writings that I am unfamiliar with. What caught my attention was this monograph he recently … Continue reading →

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As an undergraduate, I took a two semester course at a liberal university on The Old and New Testaments. While I’ll be the first to admit I possess a mediocre memory, I do recall its central tenets were teaching of the text as a historical work; there were no moral or spiritual lessons to be learned. Perhaps some might say I lacked the courage of my convictions, but at the time I was agnostic. Later in life, my outlook changed and I have had the good fortune to discover outside of my alma mater the writings of believers discussing scripture. … Continue reading →

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I wonder, in hindsight, whether I can consider what I experienced so many years ago a kind of child abuse: as a child, I attended public school—in other words, government controlled education. And before discovering LewRockwell.com, I had no idea I’d been exposed to many patently false myths serving the state’s agenda. Nevertheless, I really liked the stories told by my teacher about the courage, nobility and honesty of Abraham Lincoln who walked miles to school, read by firelight, and was honest to a fault. I had no idea about Thomas DiLorenzo’s mind opening, contrarian insight on the man school … Continue reading →

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I respect and frequently enjoy the writing of Fred Reed, whose work I discovered through being a regular visitor to LewRockwell.com. Recently, he wrote about the place of Christianity in history and its current decline in our secular and, although human nature hasn’t changed, I would say selfish world; he opined that as Christianity’s spiritual and moral influence fades, only its incomparable art, created by distant generations, remains. Nevertheless, I do agree with Mr. Reed’s observations here: Catholicism, in particular, has combined spiritual concerns with a strong intellectual bent. The Christian interest in questions of origin and destiny and man’s purpose … Continue reading →

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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9  I am writing these words before Good Friday (including Orthodox Christian) 2017. Tensions between nations have never been greater. Although there are tens of millions of people in America who profess the Christian faith, there appears to be very little in the way of public protests against military actions and incipient war. Recently, conservative talk show host Michael Savage publicly criticized President Trump’s decision to attack Syria. His conversation with author and columnist Pat Buchannan is on this YouTube of his broadcast on April 11th. In his … Continue reading →

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A boy studies a painting on the wall of his home that illustrates each one of the Ten Commandments. Struck by the one image of brother killing brother—Cain murdering Abel—he never forgets the horror of it; he couldn’t comprehend the evil act and it haunts him. Years later, a stranger is severely injured in an accident; learning of an urgent request for blood donors, the young man walks three miles to donate blood and three miles back for a person he never met. The sensitive, devout, compassionate man I’m writing about was Desmond Doss, whose story I learned about from … Continue reading →

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 I don’t know if one could describe the incident as a tempest in a teapot, but recently Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling dueled not with magic wands but with emotional, vulgar words against media figure Piers Morgan on Twitter: J.K. Rowling‏ Verified account @jk_rowling. @piersmorgan Would you like a couple of hours to mock up some pictures of refugees carrying explosives to substantiate your position? Piers Morgan … Continue reading →

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Perhaps Fox TV viewers and readers of his bestselling books think that Bill O’Reilly is a Renaissance Man. However, there is a far more intelligent and profound voice we can all listen to that thanks to Lew Rockwell I discovered; that voice belongs to Joseph Sobran. And his opus is available not only at LewRockwell.com but also published in books by the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, which also has archives of his writings. And so I’d like to share with you examples of Sobran’s unmatched quality of thought, thought that is profound yet eminently readable, a true pleasure to ponder and … Continue reading →

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I think it is something of a miracle that despite the passing of some two thousand five hundred years, we are able to read words that reach out to us, words that not only move us, but make us to think about the most profound aspects of being human; I speak of the Ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles. Despite the centuries that separate us from the playwright, there is an immediacy in his magnificent words that haunt us still. And even if we cannot read the original language in which the play was written, there are powerful translations available … Continue reading →

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One of the ways that being a regular reader of Lew Rockwell’s site enriches me is learning crucial things I’d never known before. Oftentimes there are alternative perspectives on politics and economics and current events—essentially focused on the machinations of government—but sometimes there are posts and articles that introduced me to moments in history captured in works of art that I’d never known existed. While I did know generally about the Christmas Truce of 1914, through Lew’s site I discovered Stanley Weintraub’s book Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, in an essay written by William Norman Grigg … Continue reading →

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Imagine you have a special talent for music; imagine with hard work and dedication and long hours you’ve become a skilled performer. Imagine that you and your family have a history of loving the most beautiful creations of Western Civilization—its art, its poetry, its literature and most of all its music. Now imagine that everything you love is forbidden; imagine that even playing the music you love makes you an enemy of the state. Now imagine that the state has the power to imprison you, to deprive you of your freedom, to put you in a labor camp and work … Continue reading →

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As it happens this past weekend, I chose to view the biographical film Capote, which featured the Oscar winning performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Its plot dealt with the incidents and events surrounding Capote’s “non-fiction novel,” In Cold Blood. There is also a motion picture based on Capote’s book, and since film is inherently a visual medium, it featured the lyrical, haunting black and white cinematography of Conrad Hall in place of Capote’s moving prose. In truth, as to a biographical film, I preferred Toby Jones’ characterization of Capote—a role I feel he was born to play—in the lesser known … Continue reading →

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In May of 2015, an extraordinary event happened, as described by Orthodox Christian and Russian military analyst and blogger The Saker: Today will go down in Russian history, as a truly historical celebration of the victory over Nazi Germany…But something else, no less amazing, also happened today: Defense Minister Shoigu made the sign of the Cross before the beginning of the celebrations: This is an absolutely momentous moment for Russia. Never in the past history had any Russian Minister of Defense done anything like it. True, the old tradition was to make the sign of the Cross when passing under the Kremlin’s … Continue reading →

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