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Thanksgiving, Lord!
By Judie Brown This week we gather together as families, as fellow Christians, and as neighbors to give thanks for all the blessings we have received. For me personally, this is a bittersweet time of year because nothing about our family would be what it is today without my beloved husband Paul. He has been away from us for four years now, but the memories are overwhelming. Paul loved the...
The Death Knell
By Judie Brown A death knell is “an action or event presaging death or destruction.” We can almost hear it today, as a cavalcade of despots leads the way in our modern-day rush to deny human dignity to the vulnerable. We know their names, and we know their deeds, but...
The Devil Made Me Do It!
By Judie Brown In the 1960s the well-known comedian Flip Wilson memorialized the phrase “The devil made me do it!” He was very funny, and the phrase caught on. But today the devil is making people do things that are anything but funny. When renowned commentator...
Earnestly Adoring Christ
By Judie Brown Saint Justin Martyr, an early Church father, wrote in 155 AD of the Eucharist: “For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Savior, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and...
A Cacophony of Voices
By Judie Brown The roar of messages defying God’s law is palpable in every nook and cranny of American culture. It is quite literally an orchestra of discord playing to the crowd day after day. Over the years, pro-lifers have moved from exposing the moral wrongs of...
True Words
By Judie Brown A stickler for word usage is the way some people describe me. Of course they are right. Because there are some words in the English language that are abused to the hilt, somebody has to set the record straight. When word abasement occurs, even among...
The Absence of Good
By Judie Brown The Catholic dictionary defines evil as “the privation of a good that should be present.” It continues, “[Evil] is the lack of a good that essentially belongs to a nature; the absence of a good that is natural and due to a being. Evil is therefore the...