08Dec

The Unavoidable God Question

December 8, 2022 Gil Bailie

“The question of God’s existence runs, mercury-like, through the discussion and evaluation of all the other questions which stimulate or...

07Dec

Disintegration of Language

December 7, 2022 Gil Bailie

“The anonymous medium of language can be harmed by incessant lying and thus become unsuitable for inscribing one’s personal truth...

06Dec

December 6, 2022 Gil Bailie

For years I have quoted this poem by Louis Simpson, a gifted poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for...

02Dec

December 2, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

“Our world is in urgent need of the transformative light of the truth, which illuminates the mind and satisfies the...

02Dec

December 2, 2022 Rico McCahon

Enjoy some beautiful new music from the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. My children have...

24Nov

November 24, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Every year (except perhaps during a pandemic) on Thanksgiving Day we gather with family and friends to enjoy a festive...

22Nov

November 22, 2022 Gil Bailie

In his reflections on Augustine’s The City of God Hans Urs von Balthasar makes the following remark, an essential one...

21Nov

November 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

A recent novel by Trevor Cribben Merrill, Minor Indignities, begins with an epigraph from St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Humiliation is...

08Nov

November 8, 2022 Rico McCahon

Since returning from the Catholic Imagination Conference now a month ago, held in Dallas this year, I’m left with many...

08Nov

November 8, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul...