by applewooddollhospital | Mar 24, 2026 | Blog, Essays
On X, I saw a post in which a Jew wrote that Jesus was a charlatan. “Jesus being God on Earth made flesh? Nonsense. God is never supposed to be limited. Let alone die,” he wrote. I was quite taken aback! Of...
by applewooddollhospital | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog, Essays
Reading through the Gospel of Mark for Lent, a priest led me to enter more deeply into the scene in which Jesus calls Levi (Mark 2:13-17). The priest encouraged his listeners to not only think from the perspective of being one of the sinners Jesus dined...
by applewooddollhospital | Dec 3, 2025 | Blog, Essays
Reading through my son’s high school history book, I came across a quote from John Carroll, the first bishop of the United Sates: “I have observed that when the ministers of religion leave the duties of their profession to take a busy part in political matters, they...
by applewooddollhospital | Sep 22, 2025 | Blog, Essays
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I had a social media friend –not celebrate his murder– but more justify it based on an out-of-context quote Kirk made on gun control. I’d been...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Essays
In high school and college, I used to feel so stupid studying literature because I never saw the imagery within it on my own. When I read the assigned books, I would usually think, ‘that was a pretty good book’, but that was where it ended for...
