By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My family, or at least recent versions of it, includes many wanderers. As a result, the closest thing I have to a family cemetery, a repository…
Posts published in October 2017
By Deacon Scott Dodge– (Editorial note: this week, our bloggers address the theme of “Saints and Souls.” Scott Dodge gets us started.) Halloween was brought into being by the ancient…
By Deacon Scott Dodge– I read a post this morning in which the author, who I gather is something of a post-Christian Christian, writes about taking an apophatic approach to…
By Deacon Scott Dodge– Do what is good and avoid what is evil. This is morality in a nutshell. In a Christian tenor: love God with all your heart, might,…
By Gary Topping– (This article originally was published in the Intermountain Catholic on 10/9/2015 and is reprinted here to follow up on other articles published within the last week on…
By Jean Welch Hill– For the past two years, state, Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City leaders have been meeting to address homelessness in Utah over the long term. …
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A Catholic, a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and an Episcopalian, all sit down for a drink together. Sounds like the beginning of a corny joke,…
By Jean Welch Hill– As a 3rd Congressional District constituent, I am torn between the candidates. Watching the Utah Debate Commission debate on television and listening to the A Better…
By Renee Morita (Guest Contributor)– (Editorial note: Mike O’Brien’s blog on 10/16/17 discussed his visit to Topaz with Renee. Renee has graciously agreed to share her family’s full story again,…
By Deacon Scott Dodge– Below are four basic points about prayer. Being a Christian means being a person who prays. In his book The Art of Praying, Romano Guardini averred…