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A great variety of people are looking forward to reading and digesting Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato Si, which the Vatican officially releases today. I am as interested in...

When our kids sang that Santa’s getting thin for Christmas, I instantly understood it mocked this lean and cautious age we live in. Unintentionally, that is, which is less...

– after Geoffrey Hill Passing a new subdivision, late fall: already the arms race of tall spruce, elegant luminaria, as winner-take-all light displays tart up the days’ values. The...

Everything’s finishing. Soul, it is time to awake, shake from yourself the thin bindings belonging to folly. Fall on your knees and release now, for liberty’s sake, sin’s worse...

Tender gift of lifting one’s hands, understanding there’s a force enforcing that promise sprung from a distant source, sweet resource of laughter and peace after storms lift and as...