Pope Francis–unfettered gospeller
There are rumours that Pope Francis sneaks out of the Vatican at night, dons cap and fake goatee, and hangs out on the streets of Rome giving alms to the poor. ...
Category: Religion
Lamentations and poetry’s high calling
Perhaps it’s this illness, but my mind is a windowless basement. At the moment, a bit feverish, pallid, shaky—on the broader realm, the memory for spellin...
Why a sad song for the road makes you kinder
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. The p...
Mathematicians prove the existence of God using a MacBook
God the Father by Cima da Conegliano, c. 1515 I like to think that Grow Mercy brings you the universally important scuttlebutt. So it’s probably worth men...