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from Greek Reporter
Historic Soumela Monastery in Pontus Reopens
The historic Panagia Soumela Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary and located in Trabzon in the Black Sea is to reopen its doors to the public on May 25 after more than three years of restoration work. The religious touchstone for all Pontian Greeks closed to the public on September 22, 2015 due to rock falls which posed a danger to visitors. The ancient monastery also required restoration work after it had suffered various acts of vandalism.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Certainty, like dogma, is one of those things that people hate only when they disagree with what people are certain (or dogmatic) about. Certainty about evil things is almost always evil (even when good people are mistakenly certain about it). Certainty about good things can lead to evil if applied poorly (see The Bridge on The River Kwai). But certainty is not an evil thing in itself. I am certain that slavery is bad. I am certain that torturing puppies for fun is bad. My certainty about such things doesn’t make me an enemy of decency any more than being certain that decency is generally a good thing. When people insist certainty is bad, what they really mean is that closed-mindedness about things that should be open questions is bad. But again, even here, that’s a judgment call. As the guy from Internal Affairs says in NYPD Blue, “everything is a situation.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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