Category: Religion
Zen, Christ, St. Therese Lisieux, C.S. Lewis: they all taught a similar thing. Cultivate the eyes of a child.
God is good, so to the extent something is good, it has more existence . . . it’s more “real.”
Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that …
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
I also see this through the victims of Satanism, of dangerous rites, who come to see me and who have lived unprecedented, unimaginable sufferings to their own skin. Personally, …
The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level
When I duck into the quiet bar and that door closes behind me, I’m shut off from the world. I then order a drink and get shut off from …
The canonized saints have their own feast days. The uncanonized saints were recognized yesterday. Today, the Church recognizes the rest of us.
Every so often, spiritual lightning sears across a culture’s landscape. The example of St. Francis of Assisi immediately comes to mind. So does St. Antony.
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
The mere identification with a tribe establishes that the tribe has a distinct identity, but for others to recognize that identity? It’s considered an outrage.
And regardless, the Italians, like the Irish, were held in such low esteem, they might as well have been black (interesting parallels about our country’s horrible treatment of “out” …