Suffer, Children

If we poor fallible human beings are capable of doing anything Christlike, it is feeding the hungry, tending the sick, comforting the lonely. Yet Trump recently cut federal funding for the country’s charitable programs. They are wasteful, he told us. They do not fulfill his policies, which alone express the will of the American people. That came as a surprise to the American people. Continue reading

The Ten What?

June 19, 2024, will go down in history as a red-letter day for the state of Louisiana, the United States of America, and perhaps planet Earth. On that day Governor Landry signed a law requiring The Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom in the state. Just as true religion ought to do, it turned up the heat for instructors all over Louisiana. Continue reading

A Child’s Greatest Good Fortune

Having a child is arguably the single most momentous event a woman can experience — whether good or bad. It triggers a transformation that consumes everything she has to offer physically, mentally, emotionally, often financially. And, as we all know, the event does not end, but only begins with the birth of the child. Some women are not ready for that. Continue reading

Where Be These Enemies?

The creatures of the hadal deep do not know they are at the bottom of the ocean and certainly do not know they are at the bottom of the food chain. Innocent of God’s grace, they have also been spared the agony of having to choose between their existential attachments and salvation. God’s masterpiece, bred of Adam and Eve, was not so spared, whence the source of that creature’s anguish. Continue reading

Earthly Treasures

After my father’s memorial service, a cousin whispered to me that he had hoped I might say a word or two. My answer at the time was that my feelings were too much in turmoil to be able to say anything coherent about my father. Only now, ten months after my father’s death, do I know what I would have liked to have said then, and am able to say now. Continue reading