The day is cold and gray. For a few minutes however, a silvery light glistens off the rippling creek. The waterway makes a gentle S curve at this spot, and…
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In the 4 billion-year history of life on earth, from single-celled bacteria to trilobites to dinosaurs to humans, there have been five mass extinctions. The Washington Post recently published a…
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After sitting for an hour beside the rippling stream, watching the water flow by below my feet and people on bikes and foot flow by on the pedestrian road across…
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“Manshape, that shone sheer off, disseveral, a star, death blots black out; Nor mark is any of him at all so stark but vastness blurs and time beats level. Away…
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A strange, creepy piece appeared recently in the Washington Post. It was disingenuously and lugubriously entitled: “What Will Christendom Look Like When It Is Almost Entirely Scrubbed of Christ?” You…
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There’s a very telling and theological opening line in one of the metastasizing “Walking Dead” genre. “No matter how far or fast light travels, darkness got there first, and is…
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A fellow in Salem, Oregon came to my attention lately while talking with people in that capital city. He writes a personal blog variously called “Hinesight” or “Church of the…
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The strictest monks in Catholicism are “Cistercians of the Strict Observance,” usually known as Trappists. They pray six times a day, beginning at 3:30 a.m. Thomas Merton was a Trappist,…