What was 9/11 for?Michael Pakaluk
If we believe that God's providence oversees our nation, then for some events we ought to interpret what that event means for us, under that providence. Consider an analogy from personal life. A ...
The praying mantisEffie Caldarola
In the picture her mom sent, my five-year-old granddaughter is staring wide-eyed at the praying mantis she has just discovered on the back of her chair at breakfast. Alice loves bugs. She has a box ...
John, a witness to the AssumptionMichael Pakaluk
The latest date scholars give to Mary's Assumption, if they have faith and believe in the Assumption, is the early 60s AD. The earliest date at which scholars place the writing of John's Gospel ...
Will millions die due to USAID cuts?Effie Caldarola
How does the world view the U.S. right now? How do we deserve to be viewed? Are we working to create "the beloved community" which Dr. Martin Luther King envisioned, which is another way of saying "the ...
How thoughts affect usEffie Caldarola
It's been many years since I drove my kids daily to their Catholic school in Anchorage, Alaska. Every mom -- and everyone who was ever a kid -- remembers the occasional chaos of school mornings, grabbing ...
AI? Ho hum.Michael Pakaluk
When Friedrich Wohler in 1828 synthesized urea, the first organic compound to be manufactured in a laboratory, the popular newspapers of the day received the news as an earth-shattering development, which, ...
The shepherd dies with his sheepEffie Caldarola
In the midst of the bloody Syrian civil war, a Dutch Jesuit named Father Frans van der Lugt was killed in the ravaged city of Homs. It was April 7, 2014. He was beaten and then shot in the head. The ...
The passions of the ChristMichael Pakaluk
One of the most striking differences between the early Christians and us is that they lacked any conception of "the emotions." Rather, what they talked about were "the passions." What's the difference? ...
In the gardenEffie Caldarola
It was a little past 5 in the morning when I was jarred awake by a wet tongue licking my nose. We were dog-sitting our daughter's pit bull, and this was my morning wake-up call. Being quiet for my ...
The intimacy of the ResurrectionMichael Pakaluk
Here is a puzzle: The suffering and death of the Lord were public. He was sentenced by Roman authorities before a crowd and put to death on a public byway with the placard, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of ...
