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Signing on to Be a Parent, Come What May
A Youtuber I’d never heard of and his wife went insanely viral yesterday. By insanely viral, I mean, I went...
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Pope Leo made several anti-war...
When a Jewish Dude on X Reminds One of the Amazing Nature of Christianity
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...
Being a Pharisee
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...
The Bishops Should Have Consulted Jennifer Lawrence When Making Their Immigration Video
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...
People Lied and Charlie Kirk Died
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...
Dumb at Literature
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...
I Am No Longer Against Fox Hunts
My exposure to fox hunting was entirely via television and, in particular, the movie Mary Poppins. Like most children who saw that movie, I was greatly distressed for the poor,...
Fending Off Cougars in the Age of Divorce
I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I stay busy. Ipso facto, the age of divorce kind of snuck up on me. Having lived some life, I knew a...
How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in striped jump suits in my social media feed. There was such joy in the pictures! My heart was...
25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird
My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be so. We found out that some squirrels do hibernate, but many don't. Which is why they spend all summer hiding food away....