By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Many folks scour the works of Kentucky Trappist monk/writer Thomas Merton seeking deep insight and inspiration. I am more crass and superficial. I searched his journals…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I knew all but two of the nine good men who served as abbots/superiors at the now-closed Holy Trinity Abbey in Huntsville, Utah. What I do…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When trying to create an appealing cookbook, I suspect a writer typically would not include the words “hairy” and “lemon” in the title. Simon Cooper’s 2016…
By Michal Patrick O’Brien– Stuck here at home during the now-ended pandemic-plagued year of 2020, I really have not gone anywhere in a long time. Just as cabin fever was…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Viruses, not victories, define two of my most memorable college football seasons. One is the unusual COVID-19 season of 2020. The other was forty years ago,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My friends, the retired Utah Trappist monks now all living in Salt Lake City, always have understood that not having much money is only one way…
By Gary Topping– None of my readers need to be reminded that our country is beginning to emerge—we hope—from a very difficult period in a variety of ways. My mind’s…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I admit I was not excited about recent reports that—for the first time in 800 years—Jupiter and Saturn will align this December into what is called…
(Note from Gary Topping: The Boy Monk has a very special guest blogger this week: Bishop Duane G. Hunt, who led the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City from…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Good Saint Nicholas, whose feast day we celebrated on December 6, probably is known as the greatest gift giver of all time. His little known Utah…