How do you celebrate Pentecost? In years past, my tradition consisted of showing up to Sunday Mass, glancing at the bulletin, and thinking, “Is it Pentecost already? I should have worn my red dress.” Why […]
Where does the term “spring cleaning” come from? If you grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, you might know that our pioneer ancestors spent days every spring beating soot and dust out of their carpets […]
Last year, like many people, I craved more human voices in my locked-down life, and I turned to podcasts to fill the void. One day, the algorithms suggested an episode of some show called “Jimmy […]
Millennials like socialism. It’s no secret that many of them vote for “democratic socialists” such as Bernie Sanders, and a 2019 poll found that “45% of Generation Z and Millennials believe that ‘all higher education […]
When my youngest brother was born, the hospital signed him up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program in which children receive free books in the mail from birth until age five. This is a […]
It’s been a rough year—over a year now—of dealing with the stress of the pandemic, economic disruption, divisive politics, and difficulties within the Church. While these serious topics are important to discuss and pray about, […]
James Agee’s short 1950 novel The Morning Watch, recently republished by Angelico Press, is the kind of book about which little can be said without spoiling it. Nevertheless, I will try to say just enough […]
Recent years have produced some excellent Christian thought on the nature of work and its relation to family life. John Cuddeback has written eloquently (in First Things and on Life-Craft.org) about the centrifugal forces that […]
“How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart and flesh cry out for the living God” — Psalm 84:2-3 Where […]
If you want to start an argument in a roomful of Christians, say “Harry Potter.” Ever since J. K. Rowling’s series about a school for young wizards and witches hit the shelves, Christians have debated […]
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