Wednesday, September 11, 2019

From Climate Change to Nukes to Plagues: The Coming End of the World as We Know It

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            The end of all things has become a secular fascination.             Consider, for example, just Margaret Atwood, all by he...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Reflections on the Tabling of a Report on the "Genocide" of First Nations

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Just over two months ago, I spent two winter weeks at a friend’s home in Florida, all alone. I never turned on the TV. I didn’t answer wor...
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Monday, April 15, 2019

The Scandal of the Church Weighs on Me.

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         What weighs on me more and more, as I get on in years and consider my faith, is the historic, never-ending, and dramatic failure ...
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Monday, February 25, 2019

Evolution Is a Theory Like Gravity Is a Theory. But What About God?

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         I sort of believe in the theory of evolution like I sort of believe in the theory of gravity. Think about it. That means evolutio...
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Monday, February 11, 2019

The Gospel According to "A Star Is Born."

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            As the curtains rise in the movie  A Star is Born , Jackson Maine, a Country and Western hero, is singing at a sold-out concer...
Monday, February 4, 2019

"Roma:" How Remembering Really Matters

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We think we are the ones who choose what to remember, but in truth, our memories use us, shape us, make us who we are, often without our e...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Before Christmas; After Easter. (And the Virgin Birth)

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            Let’s be honest. Most of us smile, knowingly, when we think of the virgin birth. I mean, you don’t have to have been taught Ont...
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