With No Wind 26 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm

It was hot and humid, another ten hour day. It was perfectly still. I was nearing the end of my route, with about ten minutes of walking left. Slowly I became aware of a sound, both familiar and stra...

Samuel James, Tentatively 23 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm

Kalamkari painting of the Tree of Life Early yesterday, around 1:30 in the morning, our new baby made his entrance into the outer world. And what an entrance it was. Labor was not overly long; arou...

Dear Friends, 8 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm

Icon of Holy Silence It has become apparent that trying to maintain this blog in my current circumstances is not only foolish but irresponsible. No, the baby has not arrived, to everyone’s surprise ...

Organic, Inc. 6 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm

Have We Ever Lied to You? 6 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm

The Pope of Mercy 4 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm

St Francis and the leper. Here is a translation of the pope’s words, taken from the famous interview on the flight back from Brazil: Mercy is a larger theme than the question you raise [divorced and...

The Crackup and the Call to Love 1 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm

Art by Caelum et Terra artist Michelle Dick “In the early 1980s there was a growing reaction in the Church against the heterodoxy that was rampant in the ’70s. The NFP movement was part of that. Woul...

Two Races, Two Realities: Final Thoughts on the Trayvon Martin Case 31 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm

There was a poll in the papers yesterday: 80% of African Americans were troubled by the Zimmerman verdict, while only 30% of white people were. That is a vast gap, and expresses the vast gap in perce...

Just in Case… 30 Jul 2013 | 06:45 pm

…I disappear, understand that this baby looks like he will make an early debut. Also, because of summer hours at the library and the college student center, from whence I blog (my laptop having given ...

Sense vs Nonsense 30 Jul 2013 | 04:35 pm

Iranian Shi’ite Tilework My bride told me that when she heard the ad on the local Catholic radio station for the debate between Catholic polemicists and Muslims that it said “No one will walk away si...