Busting some myths about Portugal’s greatest hero
By Nick Gier
Reader Contributor
About this time last year, I was traveling in Portugal and visited a number of sites in Lisbon. Some of them were dedicated to Vasco …
By Nick Gier
Reader Contributor
About this time last year, I was traveling in Portugal and visited a number of sites in Lisbon. Some of them were dedicated to Vasco …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“We possess a spirit that will not be conquered.
Should we be attacked, you will find a race of Amazons in America.”
—Abigail Adams to …
By Nick Gier
Reader Staff
“It is absurd to call a fertilized ovum a baby.” —Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain
Only just recently pro-lifers have argued that abortions should be allowed …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“I form the light, and create darkness.
I make peace, and create evil.
I the Lord do all these things.”
—Isaiah 45:7 (KJV)
“God moves …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“The sword is pulled from the scabbard, it is
Not put back unless smeared with blood.”
—from a Sri Lankan Buddhist battle song.
Over the …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Easter was late this year, and the date changes every year according to an astronomical calculation. After much controversy in the early church, it was …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Every year at this time I write a column about Buddhism. The Buddha’s birthday is celebrated on different days depending on the country. In Japan …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“I believe in markets — markets that work. Markets that have a cop on the beat and have real rules, and everybody follows them.”
—Sen. …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Joining Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s clueless press secretary, 55 percent of white evangelicals believe that God has sent Donald Trump to save the nation. Jerry …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“There is zero place for politicians to be involved in these very complicated medical decisions.” — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Out of fear that the current …
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