This “issue” involving Chick-fil-A has certainly stirred up a debate (I love understating the obvious). It has even stirred up a debate on whether or not we should be having a debate about the […]
I remember wondering what would drive someone to kill themselves…Not only end their life, but do so in such a way that for seconds after they made the leap they knew there was no return, no chance for survival, and no remorse until they finally hit the water. It was dramatic in that they knew they were dead for seconds before they died. I often wondered what that man thought as he sailed through the air to his end.
To me, it is this simple. The mechanism by which a deranged human being carries out his fantasies is not the issue. A man bent on killing others will find a way to carry out is will regardless of what weapon we put in his hand.
We text. We email. And then we wonder why we communicate so poorly. Of course I am broadly generalizing here, but overall it seems like an affliction dominating our society’s poor track record on relationships. […]
We have an individual decision to make. We can be more like Jesus or more like Romans. We can be the man who forgives others as they drive spikes through his flesh or we can be the man who wields the hammer. The choice is ours.
Today I find myself basking in the afterglow of a huge explosion. Recently, I found myself discussing the issue of abortion with a group of conservatives. Needless to say I felt a bit banged up […]
“Yes, Father Mack, I am a pervert.” My mind answers the priest’s question even as my mouth stays silent. There is no sense for a 13 year old to enrage a rather large, Irish priest […]
How one family is turning a painful beginning into an “experience beyond words.”
While others are digging in to the ideological positions I have been simply watching. While some are calling each other names and suggesting that the “sky is falling” I have been stuck in observation mode […]
One must wonder what action would be taken if a parent gave their child a glass of water spiked with sodium phosphates, sodium aluminum phosphate, and tertiary butylhydroquinone. Who would intervene? By the looks at the drive through line at a local fast food restaurant, not many.
