Louisianans should still practice politics
In my final regular column for The Advocate in Louisiana, I lament the apparent passing of Louisianans’ habit of truly engaging, with gusto, in political life, even to the point […]
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Sunday Reflections, June 14: Parables
Today I skip all the rest of the readings and focus on the last line of today’s Gospel. The whole Gospel reading is Mark 4:26-34. The last half sentence is: […]
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Sunday Reflections, June 7: St. Paul’s themes of hope
As is often the case, I find that of the readings for this week, the most eloquent, insightful and fulfilling comes from Paul’s letter — in this case, 2 Corinthians […]
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Daily Roundup, June 3: Climate Nonsense; Obamacare replacements, and more
Exchanging Obamacare for patient freedom [re: a bill by Sen. Bill Cassidy], by David Hogberg. Journalism school challenges media to get tougher on California’s Obamacare exchange, by Sharyl Attkisson. Iran’s […]
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Daily Roundup, June 1: Biden’s grief; IRS perfidy; and more
My column for the Advocate raises an important issue for school choice in Louisiana, by Yours Truly. These four graphics tell the story of school choice, by Kelsey Harris at […]
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Sunday Reflections, May 31: Nicodemus
This is Trinity Sunday, but far be it from me to try to make any thoughtful comments on the complicated doctrine of the Trinity in less than 500 words. Suffice […]
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Roundup for Thursday, May 28: A genocide of Christians; and more
Only three items today, because the first merits special attention. This is an incredibly important, and disturbing, story. And it appears not at some Christian-right site, but at the web […]
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Alienated by Cultural Confusion
Do you ever look at today’s culture and feel a sort of nauseating dizziness, as if everything looks to be spinning and blurry and maybe upside down all at the […]
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Daily Roundup, May 25: Broken windows; broken road funding; and more
Harvard, hoist on its own petard: Asian-American groups accuse Harvard of discrimination, by Camille Cava of CNN. How broken-windows policing empties prisons and jails, by George Kelling, New York Post. […]
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Sunday Reflections, May 24
Forgive a digression from (most of) today’s readings, but it is not very often that Pentecost falls on the day before Memorial Day, and those two celebrations are on my […]
