I’m going to out myself. I’m a convert. Well, not exactly. I’ve been a Catholic all my life. But I recently completed a conversion of a different sort, to contemporary Christian music and radio. And, […]
It’s easy to overlook the 1951 novel Dan England and the Noonday Devil. Published in the long shadow cast by his first and most famous 1928 novel, Mr. Blue, Myles Connelly’s third and personal favorite […]
The 40 days and 40 nights of Lent are, of course, not incidental. Noah endured 40 days and 40 nights of rain in the Ark. Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights up on Mount […]
Several months ago, I sat down with a Catholic high school principal to inquire about his reasoning for allowing a young man who chose to come to school dressed as a woman to remain on […]
The intersection of post-pandemic work and the declining state of urban life prompt questions about the common good. Now in our fourth summer since COVID arrived, we are learning that post-pandemic work looks more like […]
In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul addresses corruption among Corinth’s early community of believers. At the time, some Christians in the Greek city had begun denying Jesus’s resurrection, leading to a focus […]
Elon Musk is a curious guy. The son of a Canadian-born model and a South African engineer, he grew up in Pretoria before moving to Canada and later graduating from the Wharton School at the […]
In late March 2020, Eric “Smith” 1 was getting his sixth-grade theology class ramped up on Zoom. The plan for the day was to build sufficient student understanding of the ten commandments first, then set […]
When campuses across the country came back to life this fall, I began my seventeenth year teaching business at a Catholic college in the Northeast. Over the years, I’ve taught and advised a few thousand […]
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