The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Before the end of Black History Month, I wanted to write something about a saint whose acquaintance I've made only in the last few yea...

"The soldiers led him away into the courtyard, that is, the praetorium, and they called together the whole cohort. And they clad him i...

"Then they spat in his face." (Matthew 26:67) There is a sacramental quality to the body that is unbreakable. We are complex cr...

I love Saint Josephine Bakhita, and the story I find most affecting among the very many of her life is that of her death. After decades li...

I've watched and read and thought about Star Trek a lot more than is probably healthy, but here's something that only very recently...

Whether we like it or not, we all affect each other, we all depend on one another, we all make claims on each other. By the very fact of ou...

Thought that came to me tonight while driving in my car: the conflict between Neoplatonism & Christianity (and more broadly between...