My latest short story, “The Borde Syndrome,” has been published in the August 2020 issue of Arkansas Review. It’s a story that’s uncommonly surrealist for me, but then, so are these times.

Category: State of the World

Jun 05 2012

On unregulated grace

I speak relatively little about policy. I speak about faith. But there is much happening in the Catholic Church today — much good, but very much strife as well, and the past couple of months my world has been fairly filled with the ongoing conflict between the Vatican and the, let’s say, “modern-thinking” elements of …

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May 20 2012

On Sabbath and sacred time

Though modern Judaism rarely will use this rhetoric, I feel that Sabbath is a weekly preview of the Kingdom of God.

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May 15 2012

On pluralism

God doesn’t care what we call Him, how we pray, or whether we pray. He cares how we love, for He is Love.

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May 13 2012

On a passerby

The other day, driving over the Schuykill river, I was rudely cut off by a little blood-red and sporty-looking number, young man at the wheel glued to his cell phone as he threaded his way through the busy highway bridge. Three lanes pretty packed with cars and trucks, no real shoulder, metal on both sides, and only abyss underneath, and he ripped through us like a serrated knife, leaving behind jagged lines, brake lights, and rooster-like cries of the horns. Then he filled my cabin with exhaust and disappeared out of my life.

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May 11 2012

On God, us, and personal pronouns

The natural flow of most of our languages—in this case, English—demands that a noun be assigned an appropriate pronoun. But here lies the problem. No noun, no subject is more impossible to define yet more demanding of precision than God. What do we call God?

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