I begin this post with sincere prayers for the families of the US Ambassador and other staffers killed in Libya this morning. I pray for peace in our world, especially in Egypt and Libya today. And as we mourn their deaths and...
Read MoreIs 50:4-9a Psalm 116:1-6, 8-9 Js 2:14-18 Mk 8:27-35 We have a tendency to remember Christ in our own image. Nowhere is this human tendency more evident than during election season. Christians on both sides of the political...
Read MoreIf you’ve been paying attention to the election cycle this year, then you likely have come across a supposedly objective realm of political analysis called “fact checking.” Fact-checkers are everywhere, and...
Read More“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks only what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without...
Read MoreIsaiah 35:4-7a Psalm 146 James 2:1-5 Mark 7:31-37 Recently, I’ve become quite intrigued with the creative process – with the idea of creativity as an ongoing process that leads in directions that not even the writer...
Read MoreGenerating facebook buzz is a video played at the Democratic National Convention, headlined by the memorable tag “government is the only thing we all belong to.” A simple message of civic inclusiveness and unity, desperately...
Read MoreAs the school year has started, it is worth continuing the discussion of hook-up culture, particularly on the campuses of Catholic colleges and universities. Whatever one’s perspective on the Church’s sexual ethics, one should...
Read MoreDavid Frum has an important piece up on CNN about the coming food crisis of 2013: Prediction: 2013 will be a year of serious global crisis. That crisis is predictable, and in fact has already begun. It will inescapably confront...
Read MoreLast Tuesday, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney asked voters to make their decision by answering a version of Ronald Reagan’s famous question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” It was...
Read MoreSports fascinate many people because of what athletes put at risk: their ability to participate and develop through intense focus and work the achievement of excellence in a particular sport. Watching athletes compete at the...
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