Heaven

A while back I wrote a post about The Good Place, a comedy about four people in the afterlife.  I promised in that post to write a follow-up on the widespread belief that heaven will be boring.  Spoiler alert: the characters in The Good Place come to that conclusion...

Positivity and Holy Unhappiness

I have been thinking over two responses to my last blog post.  One person said generally that my friend’s positive response to her dire illness was hard to relate to and she would have liked to know more of the process of struggle to arrive at that place of...

Who Is More Virtuous?

Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs and a devout Catholic, gave a speech to the graduating class of Benedictine College in Atchison Kansas on May 11, 2024.  Subsequent to his controversial comments about men and women, he has been pillaried in the...

My Year In Books (and other media)

My year of reading a book a week has officially finished.  In some ways I succeeded, albeit with some substitutions of articles, movies, documentaries and podcasts for books.  At the opening of 2024, friends published their readings, which dwarfed mine and I was...

Book Report #5

Happy New Year, friends!  I am seeing other lists of books on Facebook and in Christmas letters that my friends have read in 2023.  I am always interested in what others are reading. It gives me a wider list from which to pick what I read next.  I am still working on...