Finding your capacity to love…

If you think love grows best where there aren’t any difficulties, maybe you should read this. Well, maybe you should read it anyway, because what passes for ‘love’ in this day and age, all too often isn’t love at all, but something far, far smaller and weaker. And that’s really too bad, all around. hat [...]

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The Emperor’s New Suit

From the pen of Hans Christian Andersen, and first published in 1837: The Emperor’s New Suit. More on Andersen and his many tales here.

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Chapter 8, Not Exactly Dead (Christianity and superstition)

From Not Exactly Dead (MI5 1/2 Series, Book One), available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and through your favorite bricks and mortar store: 8 – FIVE IN THE MORNING, PART 1 He was glad the woman had called ahead. These days it was hard to be coherent before eleven in the morning without at least [...]

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“Marriage is Like a Garden”

A Christian love letter (and the story behind it).

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Ideals are all very well in their way, but…

…Yet even in the stress of work it is often sound policy for a man to halt for a moment and collect his thoughts. There must be some diagnosis of the problem before him, the end to which his work is directed, the conditions under which he labours. While it is useless to tell the [...]

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Living in the middle of nowhere…

… Jana Novak reflects on George Washington, and Forging Independence.

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Truth and the teacher

This retirement speech by a social studies teacher is worth a read. hat tip: Touchstone’s Mere Comments

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Contrasts

First I read: Osama Bin Laden and the Terror of Narcissism by Russell D. Moore. (hat tip: Trevin Wax) Then: Life doesn’t have to be easy to be joyful, by Jennifer Fulwiler. Hmmm. Food for thought.

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Women groomed for a career…

… often come to wish they’d learned more about being a wife and mother. Like this lady.

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The strange way of Christian love

Tim Muldoon writes about lessons learned when his daughter goes to the memorial mass of a premature baby. Along the way, he describes much of what’s at the core of Christian life. Beautiful.

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