Choosing the Chief
I might as well admit it, the words “presidential election” cause me to fantasize about moving to a desert island where all the mind-numbing nonsense…
Should Religion and E-mail Go Together?
Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search…
The Mommy Job
If you imagine God as a parent, what kind of parent do you imagine? You imagine your parent. My God may be distant and uninvolved,…
Angry People Wanted
Mad as hell…but without hope. There’s a famous scene from the movie Network where newsman Howard Beale who is fed up with the manipulation, lying,…
The Opposite of Lust
When it comes to the subject of love everybody is an expert. Your best friend tells you, “Face it he’s not worth it.” You read…
The Unexpected Guest
You know the routine pretty well. Getting ready for Thanksgiving means much planning, shopping for a lot of food, and with me there was the…
School Daze
My friends tell me that in their youth there was a pretty radical rivalry between Catholic school kids and public school kids in “CCD.” I’ll…
Surprised by Mystery
When I was about ten years old growing up in Havana, my friends and I made an awesome discovery. We had been rehearsing for the…
All’s Not Quiet on the Moral Front
What do a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon, a classic war movie, and a caution about how we see ourselves have to do with one another?…
Homegrown Corruptions
There’s a favorite story in my family that goes something like this… My father-in-law, a Frenchman, had just arrived in Latin America. He made his…
