As I write this, it has been 24 hours since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a college campus event centered on free speech and debate. Gunned down on a […]
Having spent nearly a quarter century teaching on college campuses, I have learned that eighteen to twenty-two-year-olds have forever wrestled with three existential questions: “Who created me?” “For what purpose?” “How do I know?” These […]
During the past couple of weeks, I’ve been offering “Lenten Lessons for Sales Professionals.” My goal is to get business-to-business salespeople, particularly those who are Catholic, to consider the ways Lent might invite them to […]
Given our more recent trips around the sun, social justice warriors patrolling professional workplaces may want to spend some time mulling over what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about justice. Authentic […]
I’m going to out myself. I’m a convert. Well, not exactly. I’ve been a Catholic all my life. But I recently completed a conversion of a different sort, to contemporary Christian music and radio. And, […]
It’s easy to overlook the 1951 novel Dan England and the Noonday Devil. Published in the long shadow cast by his first and most famous 1928 novel, Mr. Blue, Myles Connelly’s third and personal favorite […]
The 40 days and 40 nights of Lent are, of course, not incidental. Noah endured 40 days and 40 nights of rain in the Ark. Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights up on Mount […]
Several months ago, I sat down with a Catholic high school principal to inquire about his reasoning for allowing a young man who chose to come to school dressed as a woman to remain on […]
The intersection of post-pandemic work and the declining state of urban life prompt questions about the common good. Now in our fourth summer since COVID arrived, we are learning that post-pandemic work looks more like […]
In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul addresses corruption among Corinth’s early community of believers. At the time, some Christians in the Greek city had begun denying Jesus’s resurrection, leading to a focus […]
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