Craig

New York Post report claims US intelligence believes Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay, a claim that reportedly surprised Donald Trump, who “laughed aloud” during the briefing. Sources say Trump “couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud.” One official reportedly “has not stopped laughing about it for days.” Intelligence reportedly suggests Mojtaba had “a long-term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor.” The claim was “derived from one of the most protected sources that the government has.” One source said: “The fact that this was elevated to the highest of high levels shows there’s some confidence in this.”

What if we planned 400 years in advance? Oxford college was founded in the 1300s, and the roof was made of wood. Four hundred years after it was built, the massive oak beams supporting the roof were rotting. You can see how this would create a problem. The larger problem, a tree that size and that could support a load that heavy is likely to be quite uncommon. Old growth oak isn't going to be a common natural occurrence on an island with a growing population. So the college started asking around. They contacted the college forester, which is amazing that the title even existed, and he replied something akin to, "we wondered when you were going to ask." You see, four hundred years ago when the college was built, they knew that the oak beams would eventually rot, and they also knew that the types of trees needed to support the roof were not likely going to be common. So they planted an oak grove. They planted an oak grove to replace the beams, and they left specific instructions that the grove should not be cut, "these trees are for the roof at Oxford." Four hundred years later. We struggle to think a year or two into the future. But what if we could plan generations into the future? What if we just tried? Partly, I think, we don't because we've all been tricked into believing that the world is just going to burn up any day now. It's all going to pot, no point in investing in it or planning that far ahead. No point in leaving an inheritance. No point in building institutions to benefit the next ten generations. No point in architecture to stand four hundred years. But what if I told you that was a very new mindset? A very new interpretation of history? What if the moves we made today, the institutions we built and funded today, we did in light of what we anticipated for our great great grandchildren? I think we'd change the world. Or at least we'd be giving our great great grandchildren the chance to.

The Church has long taught that the voice speaking through the Psalms is that of Christ’s human soul. And yet in this one voice, many are contained; for example, how could the perfect Christ pray that God keep His lips from evil, when there was no evil in Him to begin with? In his “Expositions on the Psalms,” St. Augustine solves the dilemma by way of asserting Christ’s corporate headship over the Body which is His Church. Specifically, he points out that when someone steps on your toe it is your head that says “you stepped on me;” yet nobody stepped on your head. They stepped on your toe, and your head spoke as if wounded. As your head speaks for your body, so too does the Head of the Church speak for the Body of Christ — and thus Christ prays for us in His own voice, as the Psalmist prays “in persona Christi.”