From what I’ve read, the term “ship of fools” is derived from Book VI of Plato’s Republic regarding a ship with a dysfunctional crew:
Imagine then a fleet or...
“As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!’ ‘Do you see all these grea...
The word “hero” gets used a lot. Most of the time it is both accurate and appropriate. But when I hear it I’m often reminded of something my dad told me. He was...
Donald Trump has been in office less than two weeks and the number of protests against the few actions he has taken so far is dominating the news wires. As much...
“Round and round she goes…and where she stops, nobody knows!”
(The Original Amateur Hour radio show, 1934-1945)
There is perhaps nothing that reveals the su...
Happy New Year! Maybe? Hopefully?
I’d like to be optimistic about the immediate future and say something uplifting about the start of 2017. That’s the warm and...
“Be not afraid…”
In his book, Threshold of Hope, (1994), and in public comments while at the Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Poland on June 7, 1997, Pope John Pa...
Every year at Christmas time we are regaled by the story of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Dickens. We either read it or watch one of many movie versi...
There are a lot of things in life, in our society, and in our personal lives that we wish were different. No matter what the circumstances, we can always find r...
Here we are, soon entering the first of December 2016. Thanksgiving is behind us and the Christmas season, with all of its delights and anxieties, opens up befo...
Among the many detractions encountered with the early commercial promotion of Christmas is the lost significance of other seasonal joys and holidays. When Chris...
So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Over and over, again and again, we seem doomed to repe...
