Friendship Next to Godliness?
My lifelong friend, Fr. Gerald Waris, recently paid a visit to my wife, Amparo, and me and that got me thinking about the significance of friendship. Though most people call ...
Inventing a god We Can Live With
A woman who worked in a fertility clinic was being interviewed on NPR radio. She talked about all the people she helped and how much they appreciated her work and ...
The Power of Stories
I recently visited my nephew, Mark Pfeffer, in Anchorage, AK. Trained as an architect and a developer by profession, he and his wife, Desiree, have a beautiful house on the ...
Lessons from Space
I’ve been impressed by the new pictures of outer space taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. They capture a beauty that, given the cold, barren nature of space, is ...
The Gospel of the Little Prince
This is an “encore” edition of Skeptical Faith. Hopefully, a new essay will be available next week. Attention all those concerned only with “matters of great consequence:” Is it possible ...
When Is It Politics and Not Religion?
A recent article in the New York Times reports on Gustavo García-Siller, the Catholic archbishop of San Antonio, TX, and his advocacy for gun control in a state where “guns ...