Declaration of a different reality
Thomas Merton, writing in the early 1960’s, observed: Here is the great temptation of the modern age, this universal infection of fanaticism, this plague ...
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Remembrance Day isn’t easy
Remembrance Day always brings conflicting thoughts. It’s not an easy day. Not easy because I will not be ungrateful for the sacrifices made in war, but I&...
“Look look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs”
If a small band of you come together to see what Camus might mean when he said, a person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the de...
Wise hope—hope beyond hope-and-fear
There’s hope that has fear as a twin. A tremulous sort of hope that lives in the future and leeches off the past. It’s derivative. It counts on resu...