It was shortly after 4 a.m. when the midwife asked me if I wanted to help deliver the baby.
One reason Wallace’s speech is so rousing is the men of Scotland had lost heart under the rule of self-serving, pragmatic nobles, who — lacking conviction or passion — sought to negotiate with the English and forfeit their very selves.
“They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom.” It is precisely because Wallace faced head-on the situation before him that he was worth following.
A society that moves beyond Tolerance to Love, particularly learning to love others with very significant differences, learns to truly value others and learns how to build a society in which real diversity exists.
In the dictionary, next to the definition of prolific, there ought to be a picture of Bill Mallonee.
Why do we allow ourselves to wallow in a ghetto? … We wallow because, to borrow from Franky Schaeffer, we are addicted to mediocrity.
To speak of the Christian church valuing art, and good art at that, would be to garner laughs from many.
James Cordrey agrees with Francis Schaeffer: “An artwork can be a doxology in itself.”