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October 13, 2006

Blogroll Update

Dignan’s 75 Year Plan is now Good Will Hinton (after a manner of speaking…details on the change here). Our blogroll will be updated just as soon as BlogRolling cooperates. Continue Reading...
October 13, 2006

A Helping Hand: Charity Art Auction

“Rest on the Flight to Egypt,” from the Matthaus Evangelium. From the collection of Edward and Diane Knippers. By Otto Dix. Five Talents International, a ministry which aims to “to fight poverty, create jobs and transform lives by empowering the poor in developing countries using innovative savings and microcredit programs, business training and spiritual development,” is sponsoring an art auction beginning this coming Monday, Oct. Continue Reading...
October 02, 2006

Sirico and Sider on Poverty Tonight

Today’s Grand Rapids Press has an article with some background on tonight’s debate between Ron Sider and Rev. Robert A. Sirico. More details are below. If you live in the West Michigan area or are in town tonight, please stop by. Continue Reading...
September 28, 2006

An Invisible Harmony

Photograph from NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity at the rim of “Victoria Crater” in Mars’ Meridiani Planum region (Sept. 26, 2006). For anyone who reflects, the appearances of beauty become the themes of an invisible harmony. Continue Reading...
September 28, 2006

2006 Catholic High School Honor Roll Released

This year’s Catholic High School Honor Roll has been released. Go to Acton’s redesigned Honor Roll webpage to view both the top-50 and the category leader lists. The webpage also features a virtual newsroom that tracks news stories about Honor Roll schools. Continue Reading...
September 28, 2006

The Baby Market

America’s fertility clinics are now allowing parents to screen embryos according to sex, and more are opting for this practice. Kevin Schmiesing observes that the idea of children as “gift” is under increasing stress as alternative and sometimes conflicting notions of child as right, as burden, or as consumer item compete for dominance. Continue Reading...
September 27, 2006

BreakPoint’s ‘The Point’

Chuck Colson introduces a new initiative at BreakPoint, a blog called “The Point,” which will feature contributions from “sixteen people blogging on pretty much everything under the sun: persecution of Christians, literary feuds, comedy troupes, AIDS, the Pope’s comments on Islam, TV dramas . Continue Reading...