Original poetry, essays, and cultural reflections.
Horror Stories, an Oxford World Classics anthology, hasn’t a weak link in its 29-story chain. Authors represented in this volume include Honore de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle,…
You may wonder why someone who recently wrapped up a 40-post series of fairly lengthy Lenten reflections is now reviewing a book entitled The Lucifer Society. Well, be not confused. The title is not really descriptive of the contents, but…
In Pensées, Blaise Pascal gives us this timeless insight: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” We do not like to be alone with our thoughts. We do not like to reflect…
The most effective political campaign message used to be, “Vote for me and I’ll solve every problem our country has.” This explains how every problem became a political problem — which in turn explains why our problems never get solved.…
Unbelief in God is just as much a belief as belief in God. Neither can be proved beyond any doubt, although the arguments for belief are stronger. It’s often said that everybody worships something above everything else, whether that something…