Catholic relations with Orthodoxy bring pope to Turkey

Just found this.

"St. Clive's Day"

Of course, today is the day that we remember the assassination of JFK. It is also, as many already know, the day that C.S. Lewis (and Aldous Huxley) died. I heard once--and it may well be more legendary than factual--that Lewis had always prayed that he would die in anonymity. With JFK's being struck down here in Dallas, he was granted that prayer. I don't necessarily doubt that this story is true. Lewis knew that at the heart of all reality there is a fundamental self-denial and humility--a giving up of a lesser good for a greater. Here's one of my favorite quotations by the Oxford don:

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. For the Eternal Word also gives Himself in sacrifice; and that not only on Calvary....From before the foundation of the world He surrenders begotten Deity back to bgetting Deity in obedience...From the highest to the lowest, self exists to be abdicated and, by that abdication, becomes more truly self, to be thereupon yet the more abdicated, and so on forever. This is not a heavenly law we can escape by being saved. What is outside the system of self-giving is not earth, nor nature, nor 'ordinary life,' but simply and solely Hell.

Brown University Suspends PCA College Group

Brown University has suspended the Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Brown from using campus resources and has given vague reasons as to why. Apparently, there are some rules against "proselytizing" and "harassment" that groups allowed to use university facilities are supposed to abide by. David Sherwood (who, I believe, used to be a PCA pastor here in N. Texas? Maybe?) had this to say:

"My impression of Brown is it's a liberal institution in the best sense: it's a marketplace of ideas," he said. "All we've ever wanted is a place at the table."

You can read more here.

Young people in developed countries unhappy, survey says

Found this interesting piece tonight. Here's one provocative line from the article:

"The happier young people of the developing world are also the most religious," the survey said.

I recently read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard Address with a group of students at school. There are some real resonances between his words and what has apparently been discovered through this study.