Photo credit: Pixabay.com Here comes 2021! And it can’t get here fast enough! We are thinking it will be better as we look back on the wreckage of this year. I get overwhelmed thinking of and knowing people who have been suffering immeasurable heartache this year. Thinking of people tearing at the veil between life and the shadow of death... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com This is the fourth week of our efforts to make a special Advent through the practice of eremitical prayer, the prayer of the hermit. I promised you a surprise and here it is. On the day this blog is published, December 21, our universe will experience what is called the Great Conjunction,... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Let’s say you are not Catholic, or Christian, or even a believer in any faith tradition. Or, let’s say you are Catholic, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, or a believer in any faith tradition including a spirituality focused on the mysteries of nature and the cosmos. None of this matters when it comes to meditation and prayer. All of us appreciate... Continue Reading →
The blog you received today was written by Maureen McCarthy, OSU. It was mistakenly posted to the wrong site. Look for Mary Ann’s blog Monday morning, December 14th.
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com My current personal medical isolation, the inability to get around on two feet, and a sudden crippling snowstorm, have each contributed to a perfect vortex for the season of Advent! I have no choice but to be still and know that God is here. An article in The New York Times of last Sunday threw a little heat into... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com In December 1965, the nation was at war in Vietnam. Young Americans were being conscripted into the military. The hippie movement was taking hold, political assassinations and the fight for civil rights were de rigueur. We were grappling for some sort of sanity in our chastened democracy. Along came Peanuts, by then a wildly successful cartoon strip already 13... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com I’m in quarantine! Nothing at all related to Covid-19. I underwent foot surgery this past week for repair of a peroneal tendon which, medical literature says, usually develops for people who are extremely active athletes. Or, as my doctor says, who are undergoing physical degeneration, the euphemism for aging. Guess which category I fit in! Tendons are like taffy holding muscle to bone. My... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com A few weeks ago we got word that an asteroid was careening toward earth. I was beyond excited. I am a total amateur scientist, though I taught environmental and health reporting at John Carroll University. I took classes in several universities and even corporations to learn as much as I could. I wanted... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Plato developed the idea in his The Republic; Aristotle argued for it in his political writings; James Madison, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, underscored its importance in The Constitution of the United States and The Federalist Papers. The idea I am talking about is the common good. Madison underscored that “…political institutions... Continue Reading →
Photo Credit: Susan Zion, OSU Within twenty minutes of placing a life-sized figure shrouded in a blanket and stretched on a bench near St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Bay Village, Ohio, someone called the local police about a homeless person because “it doesn’t look good.” Did the caller mean it doesn’t look good for the person wrapped in the blanket who... Continue Reading →
In All Things Charity 