Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 18

Challenging Faux Poverty

I got an interesting discussion going on Facebook through a picture of the new Fiat two seater sports car. The question is, “If this car costs less than the sedate sedan he already drives, would it be terribly wrong for a priest to drive this car rather than that one?” The comments were about 50-50 pro [Read More...]

Anglicans and Catholics Meet at Waffle House

The Catholic News Agency reports here that the ARCIC (Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission) met in Germany to discuss ecclesiology. This is code for “let’s get together and talk about the dwindling number of things on which we agree.” Once again our heroes have come up with an “agreed statement”. Unfortunately the article doesn’t have much [Read More...]

12 Things Kathy Griffin Might Have Considered Before Her Anti-Trump Stunt

Anybody who reads this blog knows I am not a fan of Donald Trump, but the "beheading" stunt of Kathy Griffin was not only outrageous and offensive, but it was simply overwhelmingly stupid and crass.

President Trump in Europe – A Shining Success?

The majority of the world's population is more motivated by their religion than their politics.

Birth Control and Catholic Priests

That little pill has changed everything. The effect of birth control and a contraceptive culture has altered our world in ways we could never have expected. Think for a moment about the effect contraception has had on the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. First of all, if a family has ten [Read More...]

Why Is Everyone So Easily Offended?

Maybe I’ve spent too much time on Facebook, but why is everybody so darned offended all the time? Traditionalist Catholics are constantly getting on their high horse. Then its the feminist and homosexualists who are stomping off in high dudgeon. Next it is the Liberals or the Eastern Orthodox or the Lutherans or the college [Read More...]

TV? Turn it Off

One of the greatest blessings of my life is that my Mom had the guts to not have TV. Yep. I grew up in the 1960s and 70s with no TV. My folks were not especially strict or puritanical. They didn’t tell us TV was wicked or “Hell’s sewer straight into your home.” They just [Read More...]

Why I Am Not Eastern Orthodox

From time to time I will get an email asking whether I considered Eastern  Orthodoxy when I left Anglicanism. The answer is that I did not. Here’s why: I certainly learned a bit about Eastern Orthodoxy while I was at Oxford. Bishop Kallistos Ware lived around the corner in North Oxford. and I attended the [Read More...]

On Presidents, Princes and Popes

Let's face it, we're the world's only superpower. And yet we're so insecure.

Mystery of the Magi Book Giveaway

You may have heard of my latest book project called The Mystery of the Magi- the Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men. I’m really excited by this book. It has been so interesting to investigate the historicity of the Magi story. One of the reasons the book has been so exciting to produce is because [Read More...]