This past January, I received a “death threat” via Facebook… my first. Ironically, it was issued because I am pro-life. I laughed it off, because the authors were some middle-aged Northeastern women from the so-called peaceful “Women’s March.” I brashly thought, “Go ahead, make my day.” Being a marathon runner, I figured I could at…
Like every other Christian, I’ve been on a quest for years, for the perfect spiritual Christmas. It’s an admirable search, but Christmas is not solely a spiritual event. It’s about a body. God was already “with us” in Old Testament times, before the birth of Jesus. God hovered over the Ark of the Covenant. The…
This week will bring change, of the sort none of us can comfortably predict. Whatever happens on Tuesday, our nation will reap what has been sown. The genie is out of the bottle, Pandora can’t stuff it all back down in the box. We’ve sown a disregard for authority; we’ll reap a lawless society. We’ve…
“Like many young women, I wanted more than anything to attract men. I tried to fill the space inside of me with flirtations and flings and, truth be told, <sex>. I felt sure that if I persuaded a man to love me, I would feel complete, worthy. Of course, like many young women do, I…
The biggest event in the world this week isn’t occurring in Philadelphia, or anywhere else in politics-torn America. Nope, the biggest event is the 2.5 million young people who have traveled from all over the world to Kraków, Poland this week for the 31st year of World Youth Day. Poland has had to fight and suffer a lot…
There’s a brittle quality about us these days. We’ve had to submit to one outrage after another, week after numbing week and the intervals between gut-wrenching ordeals are getting shorter. The life-and-death, decency-shredding circumstances that we face don’t give us a break to recover ourselves; they’re coming at us like a polluted river that’s overflowed…
I rarely blog on the subject-of-the-day, because with all the great bloggers out there, I am sure to be out-thunk. I’ll take a stab at this one, however, because it’s in my back yard of Dallas, the city where I was born and now live. I’ve been seeing the blue of the Dallas Police Department…
“Hello, friends. Are you tired, run-down, listless? Do you poop out at parties? Are you unpopular?” OK, so maybe the answer to all your problems is not in that little bottle. But I think a lot of us really are tired, run-down and listless. Or angry, stressed and resentful. Fearful, anxious and isolated. Hey… it’s tough…
I remember a time when people would have reacted with human concern over a little boy falling into a wild animal enclosure at the zoo. We would have asked things like, “Is he going to survive? What kind of injuries did he have, and what medical expenses are involved? How is his mother, after she…
Ideologues in our culture drive public discussion like they own the car. So just on principle, I refuse to write about the current turmoil-du-jour, The Bathroom Wars. Instead I choose the topic of modesty. modesty, adj. That looks like two different kinds of modesty: ego modesty and body modesty. Let’s begin with ego modesty, the…
