By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I recently re-read Dorothy Day’s autobiography The Long Loneliness (1952 Harper & Row New York). I had not read it for about 35 years, since college…
By Gary Topping– (Editor note: All this week, our regular bloggers are considering, and writing about, the question of why belong to a religion when the fastest growing demographic is…
Why I am still connected to religion in a world where ‘no religion’ is the fastest growing demographic?
1 By Nick Blaylock– (Editor note: All this week, our regular bloggers are considering, and writing about, the question of why belong to a religion when the fastest growing demographic is…
By Jean Welch Hill– (Editor note: All this week, our regular bloggers are considering, and writing about, the question of why belong to a religion when the fastest growing demographic…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– All this week, our regular bloggers are considering, and writing about, the question of why belong to a religion when the fastest growing demographic is no…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It is completely possible that I was not in the right frame of mind to receive Father John Evans’s proclamation on Ash Wednesday that Lent is…
By Jean Welch Hill– I have always hated Valentine’s Day. For me, it seems to be the most commercial of all holidays designed to do little more than guilt people…
By Gary Topping– Annabel, the cute little girl across the street, invited my wife over to show off her new bunk bed and to recite “Humpty-Dumpty” for her. Later, we…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Recently I introduced a young friend, a 23 year old man who soon will join a Benedictine monastery, to some of my oldest friends, three Trappist…
By Gary Topping– The Bible is full of instances of God calling people to a special vocation or to a general reorientation of their life; in fact, it is a…