Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

Blog Posts

  • The Journey

    Humanity was created to be moral beings in our relationship to nature as its caretakers, to our fellow human beings in respecting their dignity and being responsible for them, and to God in fulfilling our obligations. We serve the Divine through our moral actions in the first two relationships and through prayer.

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  • The Knowledge Check

    A knowledge check (test) given by Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr of The Paper Chase fame. Dry, irreverent humor.

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  • When Character and Substance Matter

    Those living in the States should feel unease about the trade war with Canada. This is not merely about what affects their and Canadian’s cost of living. The Trumpian policies weaken the States’ credibility as a democracy. What exactly is the States’ projecting to the international community in this post-Cold War era, which increasingly appears…

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