The smoky haze was so bad today you couldn’t see the foothills just beyond town. There was only a faint smell of smoke from the wildfires here in northern California…
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It’s a hoot to hear Christian intellectuals rail against “the materialist defaults in secular culture,” claiming that they are “like a spell that’s been cast over modern minds, and the…
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Never be a part of anything when you have to convince yourself of it, to make it all seem true or ok.
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What need of churches when there of fields of orange poppies, and foothills framed by cumulus scudding across the sky? This isn’t a throwback to some druid-like philosophy, though the…
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Though I was brutally raised Catholic at a time when children were forced to attend Mass in Latin six days a week (five before school and once on Sunday), I…
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It’s difficult to conceive, but a few decades ago nature was largely seen as a dangerously untamed force. Now only when there are natural disasters, such as the recent cyclone…
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Someone wrote and flatly stated she was an atheist and I was a believer. Since I most often meet up with believers who think I’m a heretic or apostate, I…
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One bright sunny Sunday morning as a senior in high school, I came downstairs and announced to my stunned parents that I wouldn’t be going to Mass that day or…
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