(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) What do you think when you see the word “Creed?” If you go to the movies a lot, you may know it’s the latest in the series of boxing movies…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A new brand of software-equipped eyeglasses is now available, offering wearers real-time text recognition, voice controls and hands-free video calling. These “smartglasses,” the manufacturer promises, “enable the unprecedented experience of…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Recently The Wall Street Journal published a page-long article on kids killing kids (Juvenile Crime Surges, Reversing Decline). It quoted several experts blaming the pandemic’s elimination of “routine” in kids’…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Yesterday I took the family to see “Jesus Revolution.” This movie is inspirational, but it’s also a cautionary tale about the fine line faith leaders of all denominations walk between…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The readings for Lent commemorate scary times. This Sunday’s are particularly fearsome for those involved because these people are pushed into something new. Nevertheless, they faced the unknown with courage…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) I took the family to see the 25th Anniversary re-release of James Cameron’s “Titanic.” On second viewing, as a more mature viewer than I was on the film’s maiden voyage…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit:) In this hyper-connected world, it seems everybody’s a prophet. A prophet’s challenge in seeking wisdom from so many sources is, how do we find the one leading to truth? It seems…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sunday’s first reading recalls when Moses received the law upon which all of God’s chosen people would be raised: “Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy. ……
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Our most popular songs celebrate humanity’s most comfortable virtues—love, chief among them. Our sins don’t get as much poetic attention because, let’s face it, they don’t feel good. But leave…
(For the audio version of this review, please visit: ) The movie “Living” is the story of a dying man who’s born again—but not in the Christian sense. However, his story has many of the elements of Christ’s parables: a…