Sierra Faith

Richard Fernandez: In other words, many would prefer to buy them off or at least, give them enough money to distract them for a while. And it is not so outrageous as it seems. I think there will be a surprising amount of sympathy in polite society for the plight of the pirates, who after [...]

The Left continues to disgust: In the video, The Veteran behaves inappropriately–but he also accuses the instructor of inappropriately bringing her politics into the classroom at his expense. We are meant to think the accusation is preposterous. But at a university that produces such a video, is it hard to believe that such things actually [...]

Hallelujah! James Martin, S.J.: [M]y favorite painting of the Easter Sunday is this one, by Eugene Burnand, of Peter and John running, probably sprinting, to the tomb, looking both hopeful and confused and worried. How often this is the case for us. We don’t fully trust that God will really triumph this time—though God has [...]

James Martin, S.J.: We spend most of our lives in Holy Saturday. For the most, part our daily lives are not moments of sheer, abject terror—like Good Friday. Nor are they moments of delirious exaltation—like Easter Sunday. Rather, we are often in the “middle time,” as the disciples were. Disappointed, confused, worried, sad, anxious about [...]

With thanks to Kathryn Jean Lopez: Let all the people say Amen. The church is dark now. The altar is stripped and bare. Some are getting up and leaving in silence. Others remain kneeling, looking into the darkness. Holy Saturday is ahead, the most quiet day of the year. The silence of that silent night, [...]

Good Friday: The Passion can seem so far away. Despite the fact that many of us will listen very carefully to the story of the Passion today, the events that happened in 1st-century Palestine can seem unimaginably distant. When I was growing up in suburban Philadelphia, it seemed not participatory but in fact slightly risible [...]

Or Holy Thursday: What is it like to let Jesus serve you? The answer is in the look on St. Peter’s face, in this my favorite painting, by Ford Madox Brown of the scene from the Gospels that is remembered on Holy Thursday. Peter wants nothing to do with this. It is he, the disciple, [...]

Andy McCarthy: Somali pirates have hijacked an American flagged ship, taking hostage at least 20 Americans and their cargo — aid they were were trying to provide to the distressed Muslim people of Mombassa, Kenya. As Somali pirates have been terrorizing ships on the high seas for months now, TigerHawk is wondering why U.S. vessels [...]

Bumbling Joe at work. I prefer to agree with the Prime Minister of Israel: “You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in [...]

David French is back from Iraq and speaking clearly: As we sit here today, with perhaps the most pro-abortion politician in American history presiding over a financial meltdown, and with his “we are the world” diplomacy being greeted by North Korean missiles, I guess some quarters of conservative Christianity can take great satisfaction in knowing [...]