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When the Truth Is Called Defeatism

Thursday, 7 January 2010, 11:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

When activists in America consider the unbelievable apathy of the American people, there are generally two reactions. The first is to invoke the hackneyed ideology of ‘the people as victims of an oppressive government;’ the second is to psychologize ... More >>

Bach - The Language of the Heart

Thursday, 31 December 2009, 2:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

There is no greater composer of the language of the emotions than J.S. Bach. To listen with all of one’s being to his works is to feel at once salved, saved, and stretched. More >>

Martin LeFevre: Bach—The Language of the Heart

Thursday, 31 December 2009, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

There is no greater composer of the language of the emotions than J.S. Bach. To listen with all of one’s being to his works is to feel at once salved, saved, and stretched. More >>

Martin LeFevre:The Decade of Darkness

Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

As the Decade of Darkness draws to a close, thinking and feeling people find themselves asking: Is a breakthrough in human consciousness imminent? Or is the first decade of the 21st century the beginning of the first global Dark Age? More >>

Martin LeFevre: Jesus and Nature

Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:02 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Two hundred meters downstream, on the bank of a creek that flows during winter and spring along the edge of town, sits a great sycamore. It’s home to a pair of kestrels, a small species of falcon that has one of the most beautiful flight patterns in nature. More >>

Martin LeFevre: Global Warming As Metaphor

Monday, 21 December 2009, 2:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The verdict is in. Copenhagen proved that national governments and international institutions, even led by the wunderkind Barack Obama, cannot and will not provide an adequate response to the man-made ecological crisis. More >>

Martin LeFevre: The First Question

Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The greatest question that science and religion aren’t asking pertains to the relationship between humans and the cosmos. Specifically, how did Homo sapiens, which evolved along with all other life, evolve the power to become such a destructive force. More >>

The Nobel Speech Obama Should Have Given

Friday, 11 December 2009, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Fellow citizens of the world, I stand before you in a time of undeclared war to accept the world’s greatest commendation for peace. It is in this contradiction we, the peoples of the world, find ourselves; and it is from this contradiction that we must ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Barack Loses His Base

Friday, 4 December 2009, 1:45 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

In a weak address on Tuesday evening, falling far short of his best oratory, President Barack Obama made his case to the American people, the Afghan people, and the world for literally ‘doubling down’ in Afghanistan I was prepared to come down hard ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Barack Loses His Base

Friday, 4 December 2009, 8:23 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Martin LeFevre: The Brain Need Not Grow Old

Monday, 30 November 2009, 12:06 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

By the time I take my seat beside the little creek that runs along the perimeter of the town, there’s only ten minutes of direct, warm sunshine left in a bright autumn day in northern California. The earth’s rotation slowly turns down the burner, ... More >>

The Collapse of Communism and Capitalism, Part 2

Friday, 27 November 2009, 1:18 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Someone from a Baptist Church in Kansas sent me a nasty, Muslim-hating mass mailing in reaction to my last column. It goes to show that people can proclaim a belief in God and still be godless, which has nothing to do with belief (or deity for that ... More >>

The Collapse of Communism and Capitalism

Monday, 23 November 2009, 12:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

It’s worth reflecting, now that all the hollow reminiscing and disgusting triumphalism is over, on the collapse of communism 20 years ago. America is finally waking up to the fact that we have collapsed as well. More >>

Martin LeFevre: Falling Leaves, and Squirrels

Thursday, 19 November 2009, 12:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

One is so accustomed to seeing the gray squirrels in the parkland leap from branch to branch with perfect dexterity that it came as quite a shock to see one miss his mark and fall into the creek. More >>

Martin LeFevre: The Day of the Living Dead

Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The dead man living next door cut down the three finest trees on the block soon after moving in. It’s difficult to fathom, but the living have to fathom the dead, for they are destroying the earth and humanity. More >>

Martin LeFevre: Catholic or Universal?

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 11:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

I had an aunt that was a nun in the Catholic Church. Even as a kid, I never saw her as religious person however. She was a career woman in a black habit, at a time when there were two choices for Catholic women: marry a man and have kids; or marry Jesus ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Straight Wedding, Gay Marriage

Saturday, 7 November 2009, 4:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

My oldest sister’s daughter—the eldest granddaughter—is getting married the week before Christmas in the lakeside, snowy, storybook province of northwestern Michigan. No rotting institutions and degenerating traditions embody the sorry state ... More >>

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