This blog post, from Marc over at the previously-highlighted Bad Catholic blog, contains one of the funniest discussions about Catholicism I’ve read (it helps to know that Marc is sarcastic, witty, and devoutly Catholic, in no particular order): Carol: I spent two years in Austria as a missionary.Me: That’s great!Carol: Yeah they had some real …
Here is an article I wrote for our most recent parish bulletin: I’m sitting in a patient room at Winter Park Memorial hospital, next to my sleeping wife, just a few hours away from delivering our second child. When we found out that we were pregnant, and began considering where to give birth, we had …
I’ve never really believed in ghosts. Movies like The Sixth Sense and The Ring scared the living daylights out of me, but I never considered them to be serious pictures of reality. I’ve long had a strong belief in the supernatural, but I’ve always believed that “hauntings” and “mysterious events” could each be chalked up …
As I foreshadowed last week, Google has unveiled their Google e-Bookstore (emphasis mine): Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and …
Some tips pulled from the letters of C.S. Lewis on how to write good ‘thank you’ notes, including: 1. Expressing the inexpressible.2. The humorous hyperbole.3. The outrageous pun.4. Noting the aesthetics and usefulness of the gift.5. The collaborative thank you note. (From David Downing, author of Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel, at the …
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