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The Last Lifeline, by Anthony Esolen – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633 [Formerly at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It was stolen in 1990 by thieves who cut the canvas from its frame. The frame remains on the wall.]

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing, November 7, 2025

Anthony Esolen is a lecturer, translator, and writer. Among his books are Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, and Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World, and most recently The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord. He is Distinguished Professor at Thales College. Be sure to visit his new website, Word and Song.

I take it as given that God commands only what is good for us and forbids only what is bad, which means sometimes also not permitting others to do what’s bad.  For we are social beings, and permission slides into participation, and participation slides into approval, and approval eventually demands celebration, and sometimes even compulsion.

Solomon’s idolatry thus began when he looked outside of Israel for his wives.  By the time Ahab was on the throne of Israel with the malevolent Jezebel, loyalty to God might cost you your life.  Obadiah, master of Ahab’s house, had to hide in a cave one hundred and fifty prophets of the Lord to keep them safe from Jezebel’s murderous hatred. …

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