Recently I have been reading G.K. Chesterton’s excellent biography of St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas’s chief task in life was to theologically battle the variou...
It’s always delightful to revisit books from my childhood. There is a security, a wholesomeness, in extremely good children’s books that can be matched by very ...
One of the luxuries of winter break is having time to go to museums. Yesterday, I saw an exhibit of masterpieces borrowed from the Louvre. The two works that st...
Be thankful.
Three days ago I went snowshoeing in the woods of northern Minnesota, where our family has a cabin on an island. We went out through the fresh dri...
O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer Our spirits by thine advent here; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death’s dark shadows put to flight. Rejoice! R...
This is the third part of an ongoing series about what we’re waiting for during Advent.
O come, thou Branch of Jesse’s tree, Free them from Satan’s tyranny...
Christ is coming back. This much has been promised to us. The season of Advent is a time to remember this promise and to prepare—not because we ought not to pre...
Oh come, oh come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to yo...
Courage and cruelty, honor and horror, miraculous escapes and damning coincidences are the stuff of film and novel, but also — at singular moments of history, f...
When we’re trying to decide how to live our lives, our starting point really does matter. During one of my sections this week, we had a conversation about t...
