by John Clark | Dec 16, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
In 1984, Hollywood released “Gremlins,” a film about a father who brings home an unidentifiable furry little animal as a Christmas present for his son. Turns out, this little guy is even more unique than they realized. If you feed it after midnight, it spawns...
by John Clark | Nov 29, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
“Do you know what happened to my heart? When I saw you, my heart fell in love with you.” These words were spoken by a little girl explaining how she felt when she first saw her adoptive mother. The recent video of this conversation has made the rounds on the internet,...
by Bill Schmitt | Nov 1, 2019 | Culture, Guest Blogs, Happiness, Latest
Thanks to Paul Nicolaus for a recent review examining scholarly research on the kind of happiness we might experience en route to the office each morning. Nicolaus’ online post for Oregon Public Radio, (“Want to Feel Happier Today? Try Talking to a Stranger”),...
by John Clark | Oct 17, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
In the 1957 movie, “12 Angry Men,” a dozen jurors are assembled for the purpose of determining whether a boy, accused with the murder of his father, is guilty of the alleged crime. The first ballot, though one-sided, lacks the required unanimity to convict: 11 guilty;...
by Guest Writer | Oct 7, 2019 | Astronomy, Guest Blogs, Latest, Science, Reason & Faith
I once thought that the Copernican Revolution was about the modern scientific view of the universe displacing the old Earth-centered view. Consider Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2014 re-make of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” TV series, with its animated sequence about Giordano Bruno...
by Ascension Media | Sep 30, 2019 | God and Suffering, Guest Blogs, Latest
When God first began teaching me about suffering, I was a young, non-Catholic, and found the whole subject completely depressing. As a rule, most non-Catholics have no theology of suffering. I, personally, had no handle on the glory of suffering, and using those two...
