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[This post mentions key plot points for Infinity War but spoils no surprises in Endgame .] MrsDarwin and I made our way out to see Av...

In the circles I move in, there's been a lot of hand-wringing about the demise of blogging, and nostalgia for the golden days where one ...

The prisoner sat quietly in his cell, waiting for the guards. The firelight from the courtyard flickered through the bars of the narrow wind...

Yesterday evening, Paris time, a fire broke out among the wooden timbers that support Notre Dame cathedral's exterior roof , and in the ...

The kids have been watching Howl's Moving Castle, which makes me long to sit down and read the book again. But alas, I have no time for ...

MrsDarwin and I were looking at the news tonight, trying to understand how bad the damage to Notre Dame cathedral was. What seemed confusin...

Thus says the Lord: Is it you who would build me a house to dwell in? As long as I have wandered about among the Israelites, did I eve...

Notre Dame de Paris has stood for over 850 years. I saw it for the one and only time just over twenty years ago in 1999, when MrsDarwi...

This post from three years ago was apropos yesterday -- not because I was particularly restless, but because it was a glorious Lenten Friday...

(15 minutes on the timer.) This has been a week filled with a thousand pinpricks of mortification, not the least of which was the necessit...

As part of the inevitable give-and-take of church politics, I sent an email carefully crafted to be polite and conciliatory, while expressin...

Notes on reading John chapter 5: Jesus heals the man at the pool of Bethesda (or Bethsaida). After this, there was a feast of the Jews, an...

Toward the beginning of Lent, I was flying high and ready to take on the world, and so, in what I thought was a moment of strength but was c...

The oldest three girls went to see Unplanned, the Abby Johnson biopic from Pureflix, at a benefit screening for our local crisis pregnancy c...

In honor of this Sunday's gospel, here's a reflection on the prodigal son from three years ago: "And the son said to him, ...

As MrsDarwin mentioned in her post about hot water (or the lack thereof) I had to make a sudden business trip this week. The last two days ...

Happy Monday of the umpteenth week of Lent! At the house here, we are listening to drums in the deep, as rumbles and clanks from the basemen...

Our parish had it's Lenten mission last week, the topic being healing and forgiveness. There was much that it was good to hear and thin...

I was supposed to present at a meeting today, but due to schedule constraints, my segment had to be cut. But hey! I have a blog. Here's ...

As I've been off Facebook this Lent, my phone usage has fallen nearly 100%, and my news consumption is limited to the paper copy of The ...