Every year about this time I choose a theme for a New Year's resolution that I can put a one word label on and just concentrate on that...

I am not a mere lump of clay nor a stone. I am a poet disguised as a philosopher, The allegorical star in a stone boat. I stand on a sand...

With all of the nuclear "sabre rattling" going on between the leaders of the U.S., Korea, and Iran perhaps the "Litany of the...

Time, where man lives not. What is it but eternity? We live on Earth a moment or two, Smack dab in the middle of forever. Waste not your...

Saint Augustine of Hippo in his excellent book, "City of God", quoting the Roman politician and lawyer, Cicero in his book "D...

As Archie Bunker might say, "Mister we could use a man like Saint Ambrose again!" In AD 380 the Roman Emperor Theodosius made be...

The Complaint of Peace (Querela Pacis) Desiderius Erasmus 1521 "We can be angry with the wicked but we can only pity the irrational....

My mother Armella was born in 1913 and when she was a little girl there were still more horses than motorcars. When she was about ten or ele...

The Tweet, the whole Tweet, and nothing but the Tweet! Which came first, the people or the money? Clowns to the left of me and jokers to t...

Charity of the Spirit - the solution to the RED / BLUE divide, especially for Christians. St. Paul to the Galatians 5:13-15 For you wer...