16+ hour, 15+ min ago  (675+ words) On Tuesday I wrote about how young people seem to be migrating from mainline protestant churches to Catholicism." I analyzed the trend in terms of an outlook to personal salvation and evangelicalism." Among hardcore Evangelicals there is a term, "spiritual…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (634+ words) I find it impossible to make much sense out of things right now." The ceasefire is apparently based on the immediate opening of the Straits of Hormuz, but from what I can tell at the moment, they are not all…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (565+ words) If you are old enough, as I am, to remember the Apollo space program then watching Artemis II circle the moon yesterday came with an odd sense of d'j" vu." Sure the lunar orbit was larger, hence the distance from…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (261+ words) He is Risen!" He is Risen Indeed!" It is a cry that changed the world. We literally measure time by it, before and after." But why did the world have to change to begin with? Years ago I wrote: This,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (604+ words) Disturbing news, "Over half of all confirmed hate crimes in New York City in the first quarter of 2026 were antisemitic in nature, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed in a press conference this weekend." Confirmed hate crimes rose…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (279+ words) The second article is a psychotherapeutic view of Tiger Woods recent problems: This weekend on the church calendar paints a different picture " one of sin/death/resurrection/redemption." The church does not see things in terms of mistakes, illness and…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (744+ words) In 1991, when I visited the Soviet Union (Yes, that Soviet Union " the bad guys) I ended up in a long discussion with water quality officials in what was then known as Leningrad, now St. Peterburg, on over-regulation." They talked of…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (886+ words) It would be difficult to describe just how important America's early manned space program was in my youth." I remember taking what then passed for a "portable" TV to my second grade class so we could watch John Glenn's first…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (377+ words) The new Archbishop of Canterbury in the U. K. is quite controversial " mostly because she is quite liberal." There has been a slew of commentary in opposition to her appointment." Perhaps my favorite of such commentaries I have encountered is this one…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (711+ words) The news yesterday, "Los Angeles County saw the largest decline of any county in the United States in 2025, according to new census data published on March 26." Meanwhile, "A major Wall Street powerhouse is weighing a southern escape as New York…...