I once asked Joseph Pearce, the most well-read man I've ever met, how he managed to get such a good education without going to college. "Kevin," he replied, "I am well educated BECAUSE I did not go to college." *** I have the great honor of tutoring a very intelligent 15-year-old home-schooled student. Together we just [...]
Lately I've been answering questions posed to me by a Protestant reader of my blog, and this time I'm going to let the Apostle James answer a question that no reader of any blog has posed to me, but that many of you could; in fact I could post it myself. My hypothetical reader writes ... [...]
We tend to settle for things. And understandably so. Buffeted and battered as we are by life, we make the best of it, we grin and bear it. We do not moan the moans, give voice to the great longing that we feel. We do not reveal the hole that is never full, the hole in [...]
Hey, I finally figured out how to add a RECURRING DONATION BUTTON to our Theater of the Word website!!! Theater of the Word Incorporated is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation and your donations are tax deductible. Please support the work we do, which includes ... Touring Theatrical productions that evangelize through drama and comedy YouTube videos and [...]
The Great God "O" is not Oprah. No, it's the Orgasm. I'm beginning to catch on, and I repent of all my foolish years of preaching and teaching the Christian Faith. Frank Weathers sets me straight here. The Main Stream Media (MSM) keeps pounding this into our head for a reason - the Orgasm is God, [...]
For the New York Times, forced abortion is horrible, but abortion itself is no big deal. The New York Times likewise, while it points out the irony of Nazi "Care Centers" being sites of killing, is simply blind to the the fact that "health care" for us now includes contraception, abortion and euthanasia - paid for [...]
Now this graphic and quotation from Ignatius Press has been making the rounds on Facebook, and even some of my secular anti-Christian friends have "liked" it. It goes to the heart of what this stuff is all about. Because once one gets over the worst of our objections to the Faith, and places even a minimal [...]
OK, why does this smell funny to me ... a robustly orthodox Catholicism impassioned about mission is the only Catholicism that has a future. Why? Because it’s the Catholicism that is answering Christ’s call to mission in the Great Commission, and it’s the only Catholicism that can meet the challenge of aggressive secularism, jihadism — and [...]
Catholics at one time were told to meditate on the Four Last Things -Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. As a Lenten practice, may I suggest the following. If you were to die within the next five minutes, and you knew it, what would be the story of your life? I don't just mean milestones [...]
"The Provisional Life" is a phrase of Carl Jung's that is a keeper, though so much of his philosophy was not. The website Lexicon of Jungian Terms defines it thus ... PROVISIONAL LIFE: A term used to describe an attitude toward life that is more or less imaginary, not rooted in the here and now, commonly [...]
