Works of Mercy

Starring Donald Trump, who sent a series of tweets about the missionaries being treated for ebola in the U.S.Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days – now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2014  Stop the EBOLA patients…

A reader writes:We are looking to bring awareness to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. One way we can do this is to be a visible witness right here in our own communities. We have designed a t-shirt campaign to help us do this. Here is the link that I am asking you…

My fellow Patheosi Frank Weathers notes that the Administration’s passivity while the refugees of Iraq are slaughtered can be summarized as ” “Wrong kind of Christians, in the wrong places, being killed.” (though, to be fair, non-Christians are getting slaughtered too).  He calls it the Coulter Copout.He’s got a point. Coulter’s thinly veiled appeal to mouth-breathing racists…

…to organize an evacuation and give them asylum.

An embarrassing coda to a decade of disgrace for the United States.  We should be offering asylum to every single one of these people, since it was our war that resulted in this catastrophe.  Instead, it is the reviled French, who wouldn’t be stampeded into that gigantic act of folly and who got the “freedom…

…is under discussion over at the Register. It is providential, I presume (since everything else is), that the series on The Work of Mercy long ago should happen to run this piece just as the crisis of children at the border should hit.

about the missionary work he is helping with in Central America and Tanzania. We have had two sets of missionary volunteers come in already. Our big focus this month is getting our St. Francis Emmaus Center up and running again after we moved to a larger facility. Here is our web link: http://stbryce.org/emmaus-center/ And here…