Raising a family in a town rife with gang crime was a constant concern for my husband and me. Almost daily there were drive-by shootings and other assorted acts of violence. In 1994, our town, nestled in Central Washington (less than 10,000 population) made the national news for “more violent crime per…
August 15, 2018 Dear Wounded Fathers, On this brokenhearted day, your minds should turn to Ars, that small and despairing French town. The response to this swallowing red-tide of Church evil can be found in there. There, in the secret of its wavy countryside, your comeback lay.
“These will pay for your kid’s college education,” –Beanie Baby investors. A pile of beans sewn into animal-shaped fabric lacked long-term value once people started noticing the emperor had no clothes or rather, the beanies had no worth. “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt 6:21). “You can have it…
Jean Gaunt “Look at this,” Jean Gaunt said, showing the Sunday newspaper to her husband, Tom. Their hometown paper, the Indianapolis Star, featured a story about nine siblings who were available for adoption. It was Mother’s Day 1999, and the irony of the date did not…
Atheists consider the number of people that have been born in the history of the world and then they consider God and surmise: No way! They can’t wrap their minds around God creating so many people and loving each one. I can’t wrap my mind around it either, until I consider what being God means. It means…
The secular media’s enthusiasm for Poland’s pro-abortion protest on October 2, after years of ignoring the much bigger March for Life in Washington, DC, is ironic. Every year at the March for Life in D.C. secular reporting is hard to find despite all the markings of a big news story—a big demonstration drawing hundreds of…