(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…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Aristotle taught that nature abhors a vacuum—that every space in nature needs to be filled with something. Like light, maybe? Well, way before Aristotle’s time, humans showed an amazing knack…
“Missing” is a story about the virtues and vices associated with information technology. It focuses on a mother and daughter who together participate in IT’s enslavements of them both. The mother uses IT to control her daughter and the daughter…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Some scriptures and psalms are addressed to victims. A couple of those psalms, like the ones selected for this Sunday’s Mass (Ps 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10) tell us God seeks justice…
Tonight I took my family to see M3ghan, a new sci-fi/horror movie. It’s really a modern take on the Frankenstein story. A female toy engineer conceptualizes and engineers a doll programmed with artificial intelligence that eventually evolves into self-awareness. The…