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The day is cold and gray. For a few minutes however, a silvery light glistens off the rippling creek. The waterway makes a gentle S curve at this spot, and…

In the 4 billion-year history of life on earth, from single-celled bacteria to trilobites to dinosaurs to humans, there have been five mass extinctions. The Washington Post recently published a…

After sitting for an hour beside the rippling stream, watching the water flow by below my feet and people on bikes and foot flow by on the pedestrian road across…

“Manshape, that shone sheer off, disseveral, a star, death blots black out; Nor mark is any of him at all so stark but vastness blurs and time beats level. Away…

A strange, creepy piece appeared recently in the Washington Post. It was disingenuously and lugubriously entitled: “What Will Christendom Look Like When It Is Almost Entirely Scrubbed of Christ?” You…

There’s a very telling and theological opening line in one of the metastasizing “Walking Dead” genre. “No matter how far or fast light travels, darkness got there first, and is…

A fellow in Salem, Oregon came to my attention lately while talking with people in that capital city. He writes a personal blog variously called “Hinesight” or “Church of the…

The strictest monks in Catholicism are “Cistercians of the Strict Observance,” usually known as Trappists. They pray six times a day, beginning at 3:30 a.m. Thomas Merton was a Trappist,…