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Indivisible
Restoring Faith, Family And Freedom Before It's Too Late
Are we in a crisis?
A million abortions a year. Skyrocketing divorce. Broken families. Social approval of same-sex lifestyles and the push for same-sex marriage. Economic collapse, unemployment, swelling government debt and deficit spending. Global terrorism.
If you agree that we are in a crisis, then you'll understand why this book is so important.
It is important because in a democratic republic, only an informed and principled citizenry can respond adequately to a crisis.
It is important because committed Christians, with their reason informed and enlightened by faith, with their common motivation ("Love your neighbor as yourself.") and their firm foundation (I am the Truth....And the truth shall set you free.) need to stand together-and act together-in this time of crisis.
It is important because this book enumerates and explains the fundamental principles which we must understand and accept if we are going to make decisions and undertake actions that will lead to the restoration of cultural and economic sanity in this country.
It is important because it is a concrete example-that needs to be set on a lampstand-of how Catholics and Evangelicals can and must work together at this critical moment in our country's history.
Many books have been written on conservative politics. Many more have been written calling Christians to holiness and spiritual renewal. Very few, however, have managed to combine a clear explanation of the conservative political perspective with its corresponding personal and spiritual virtue.
In Indivisible, Jay Richards and James Robison tackle tough moral and political issues facing Christians today, including abortion, stem cell research, marriage, education, economics, health care, the environment, judicial activism, terrorism, free trade and more. Written to appeal to a broad spectrum of believers, Indivisible provides simple, clear arguments that Christians can use to support their beliefs in public settings.
We can restore our culture and revive our economy, but everyone must play a part. Indivisible lays bare what we must know, what we must do, and how we can do it. Before it's too late.
Forward by Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ
Jay W. Richards is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a contributing editor at The American magazine and the Enterprise Blog at the American Enterprise Institute. He has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and has appeared on Larry King Live. He has lectured on economic myths to members of the U.S. Congress, and is the author ofMoney, Greed & God.
James Robison is the founder and president of LIFE Outreach International, a worldwide Christian relief organization. He is also the host of LIFE Today, a syndicated television program, as well as an author and prolific speaker. Robison has personally influenced religious, political and social leaders for the last four decades and continues to dialogue with a wide range of highly visible people today.
From Pentecost to Advent, the Church celebrates in Ordinary Time
From Whitsun to Advent, in comparison with the long holiday of Eastertide, one enters a more sober time, though here and there the feasts of Mary, particularly the great feast of the Assumption (once called: our Lady in harvest-time) interrupt it. Again one cannot help but see on these days the perpetual inclination to mark all the feasts of our Lady with some sort of flower ceremony.
Saints' feasts and angels' feasts follow on each other; guardian angels, Michael, prince of angels, and Raphael, are all honored during this time. In parts of England Michaelmas was celebrated as a sort of general sports day in which one man would lead a gang of followers across country, through the roughest ways he could find, a crude symbolism, probably, of Michael leading the host of angels.
If all the angels have their festive day, so too do all the saints, on November 1st. The vigil of this day, once probably given to invoking one's patron saints, turned in later days into a superstitious festivity in which love-charms such as nuts, apples, and glowing embers were credulously invoked and fortunes told, and future lovers seen in vision.
If all the saints have their festive day during these days, so too have all the souls. Theirs is on November 2nd, on which day the bells used to be rung almost unceasingly as a reminder that the members of the Church-family who were yet in prison needed to be rescued. Thus by the first Sunday of Advent, the first day of the liturgical year, there is almost no type of person who has not been celebrated by the Church in one way or another.
First Reading - Acts 1:1-11
1The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, 2Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. 3To whom
Psalm - Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
2O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of Joy, 3For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth. 6God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet. 7Sing pra
Second Reading - Eph 1:17-23
17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him: 18The eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what the hope is of
Gospel - Mk 16:15-20
15And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned. 17And these signs shall follo
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