church

Never be a part of anything when you have to convince yourself of it, to make it all seem true or ok.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s a warm Sunday morning. After a fine walk along the newly verdant paths in the park, and a pleasant talk with two women on horseback, I stop to sit…