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This morning in church onelbourne, Australia, I heard a wonderful priest talk of Lent as a time for reset. A Great Reset? The priest talked of Lent as a time to reset and of Jesus going into the wilderness; 40 days with no food; a letting go of entitlements and expectations of selfish power The priest said “Desert strips away illusions.” leading us to the truth of “who we are.” This phrase reminds me of Pope Benedict’s “Lent stimulates us to let The Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we...

When I was looking desperately for a number of years two decades ago for voices that intelligently and courageously spoke up against the militarist excesses of Bush 2, I was astonished and delighted by what I found on The American Right - Congressman Ron Paul and Patrick Joseph Buchanan. IMHO there is nothing short on film from Buchannan to match the magnificence and power of Paul's "what if" speech. But the longer culture wars speech on youtube is for me an almost sacred text which I watch once or twice a year to restore my faith in truth. My own...