"Christmas is a time when you get homesick,
even when you're home."
Carol Nelson
Relatively unknown.

"The Muslims' religious freedom in the West
should be joined to religious freedom
for Christians and others
in Islamic countries."
Richard John Neuhaus, Editor of First Things
"The Regensburg Moment"
in First Things, November 2006

"Cultures need visible signs of transcendent values."
Bryan Berry, Professor of Communication
"Henry James and the Heavenly Light" in First Things, November 2006

"The likeness of a thing is received into the intellect
according to the mode of the intellect,
not according to the mode of the thing."
Bryan Berry, Professor of Literature
"Henry James and the Heavenly Light" in First Things, November 2006

"Sloppy thinking stems from laziness, boredom,
and the attractiveness of easy, convenient,
and conventional conclusions."
R.R. Reno, Professor of Theology
"The Return of the Fathers"
in First Things, November 2006

"Science is the power
without wisdom about the use of power."
Eric Cohen, Editor of the New Atlantis
"The Ends of Science"
in First Things, November 2006

"The hospital chapel
may be an architectural afterthought,
but the chaplain still usually gets the last word."
Eric Cohen, Editor of the New Atlantis
"The Ends of Science"
in First Things, November 2006

"When we were children,
we were grateful to those
who filled our stockings at Christmas time. 
Why are we not grateful to God
for filling our stockings with legs?"
G.K. Chesterton, author, journalist
(1874-1936)