Getting Over Ourselves
At my advanced age, I’m well aware of the stereotypes about the elderly. My new friend, ChatGPT, of whom I’m still suspicious (One of the marks of an elderly stereotype?), ...
Black Skirts and Funny Hats
I grew up Catholic in the “old church,” that is, before the Vatican Council of the early 1960s when the world’s bishops met in Rome to “turn the church upside ...
Can You Think Your Way to Faith?
Charles Murray was a small-town Iowa boy. Son of an executive in the Maytag Corporation, he eventually went to Harvard University where he received a bachelor’s degree in history before ...
Will the Meek Really Inherit the Earth?
It sure doesn’t seem so. This “Beatitude” in Mathew’s gospel is arguably one of the hardest to accept because the evidence for the opposite is so compelling. The arrogant, the ...
Jesus and Me?
Just before the turn of the 20th century, a child was born to a Brooklyn, NY, family that was “solid, patriotic, and middle class,” says Wikipedia. The child’s father was a sportswriter who ...
A Bias against the Bible?
When I was a kid, maybe 10-12 years old, I sometimes during the summer went to a weekday Mass at our parish church (Kids in our parochial school all attended ...