Monthly Archives: January 2006
Dangerous Ideas
The Edge has posed it’s annual question of the World’s Thinkers — What is your Dangerous Idea?
Deus Caritas Est
The Washington Post tried to make him look as stern as possible — “Pope Warns About Loveless Sex”. Can’t blame them too much because that’s what I expected his first encyclical to be like. Haven’t read it all yet, but … Continue reading
After forty years of life
I have learned that it’s actually worth buttoning that inside button on the waistband of your trousers. I have learned that life is way too short to wear cheap shoes. I am finally learning to allow myself to be hungry. … Continue reading
A Body of Broken Bones
“As long as we are on earth the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another. Because of this, love is the resetting of a body of broken bones…Even saints cannot live with … Continue reading
It seems like nineteen years
Until last night, when my wife corrected me, I thought today was going to be our nineteenth wedding anniversary. Apparently it’s just our eighteenth anniversary and I’ve been deluded for the past few months. I feel oddly disappointed. It just … Continue reading