An acquaintance of mine was once distraught upon learning that I celebrated Easter. From his reactions, it followed that he saw proclaiming the truth of Christianity as inseparable from a colonialist mindset and an implicit Western supremacism disparaging other religions and cultures. In other words, he considered my public affirmation that Jesus Christ has truly…
Despair abounds. A bleak hopelessness seems to be permeating our world, perhaps at more and deeper levels than most of us realize. The pandemic and the ensuing tyrannies are but the very surface, immediately beneath which we find tectonic fissures down to the core of our institutions. The culture wars are really only a skirmish…
Its waters are cold, and rougher than expected, even for a wild olive from Northern climes. My path toward God is that of the philosopher. It’s a difficult one, a spiritually dangerous one, and I’ve come to believe that it’s probably one of the least preferable. St. Thomas’s name speaks truly of the entire profession…
