If one’s home is the most stable object in most of our lives, one’s spouse is surely one of the most stable people. Like one’s home, one’s spouse (or partner or long-time boyfriend or girlfriend) is easy to take for granted on account of this person’s seeming permanence in our lives. Because they are there… Read More Renewing Gratitude: Spouses
Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR. He writes: Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Right before our wedding, Gen and I bought the house we’d move into after our honeymoon. I had unsuccessfully argued the “let’s just consolidate… Read More My First Father’s Day as a Dad
Events in our national life are often sadly familiar. That is certainly true of the Orlando shootings this past weekend. Mass violence. Contentious claims about Islam and domestic terrorism. The nation briefly rallying in solidarity. Prayers, anguish, and calls for change. Probable failure to address the root causes. An almost inevitable repetition in the near… Read More Prayer During Tragedy
I’m neither a conservative nor a Republican. But as a citizen, I believe that the United States would benefit from having a better Republican Party and conservative movement—one more committed to human dignity and the common good. Our system does not function well with divided government and extreme polarization. The ideological purification of both parties… Read More David Brooks’ New Traditionalism and a Better GOP
Pope Francis: “We are stewards, not masters of our earth. Each of us has a personal responsibility to care for the precious gift of God’s creation.”
It seems appropriate to lead off this series of reflections with something that is at once one of the greatest blessings in most of our lives and one of the easiest to take for granted—one’s home. If you are at home as you read this, take a quick glance around you. (If not, you can… Read More Renewing Gratitude: Having a Home
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The party of Lincoln is dying by Michael Gerson: “It is not a normal political moment. It is one of those rare times — like the repudiation of Joe McCarthy, or consideration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or the Watergate crisis — when the… Read More Around the Web
