Mercy come call on my cynical heart—a New Year’s prayer
…Pope Francis has called 2016 the year of mercy, perhaps the following can be one of the year’s prayers: Mercy, come call on my cynical heart. Doubt I can...
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Goats, after all, are just as much part of this world as lemurs
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of theHeart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination. — John Keats Weigh...
One small perspective on the Paris attacks, with no pictures
We grieve for the families and friends of those murdered in Paris, we feel relief hearing from friends and family who are safe. Too, we are thrown into confusio...
Stuff I believe, now that I’m sixty-one and basically a grown man
I once believed that I was an agent of original thought, now in the five-o’clock shadow of life, I see that I am something like a lego-man—a composite of longin...