The Inside Out Story

In the world you will have . . . the content of their character, coming out as . . .

Wayward Christian Empathy

No. This pop-project isn’t satire. The Church of England, so obsessed with its moral performance, really did cover the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent themselves to the world.

Two Visions Three Questions

My 70+ years as an American have not made me an optimist nor a pessimist nor an end of-history utopian. I am an American realist. I see things as they are and work from there.

Snakes Alive!

The foolish take pity on snakes. Thinking to help creatures out in the cold cruel world, they bring them home and the creature’s true nature is revealed. Suffering follows.

At The Still Point

The Agony by George Herbert invites us to a garden and then a cross to fathom the depths of sin and of love.

Barrier to Entry

In 1982 there was a crisis. . . .2023 and there is a crisis.

A Sense of Place or a Senseless Place

“I’ll paraphrase the phrase of my old neighborhood: The rest of the countries, the world is not a patch in our jeans, if we do what we wanna do, we need to do,” Joe Biden. Off or on script, Joe Biden, the head of the Democrat party, speaks from a stage of decline that often…