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a sonnet for knowledge Okay, so there was a lot of hubbub about these baptisms gone wrong. The google function means that with a ctrl + C and a ctrl + V I can search for anything on the internet. I keep tabs open on my Google Chrome browser like books in a library. But,…

How do you live in the shell of the old with the life of a new? How do you pour new wine into old wineskins? Is it possible, or do you have to start all over with new skins? As I bike up Sixth Avenue, I am conscious of the fact that the Gospel is…

you are every secondalive in a hard-gnawing way for all who breathed you deeply in,     each set of lungs, those rosy implanted wings, pink balloons.          We sigh you out into air and watch you rise like rain. Mary Karr, Suicide’s Note: An annual There are no words for when someone takes their own life. And you’d think…

But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you…

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain…

My journal entries from yesterday end and begin with the same phrase—it’s a glorious fall morning. Today, the leaves shone scarlet and gold against a somber, nearly navy-blue sky. Clearly its Central Park’s peak weekend. The rain set in a few minutes later. It’s such a gentle drizzle, it won’t knock the leaves off the…

God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing, like the stars. It is a life with God which demands these things. Experience has…

It was January of 2017. I was living on the westernmost edge of Eastern Time in South Bend, Indiana. And, as far as winters go, it was fairly dark. Although I suppose I actually got more sun then than I would have in New York. South Bend is roughly 15 miles from the border of…

A list made originally for my dear friend spending three months there. It has been edited to reflect closures (sad) and generally updated to reflect the current state of affairs that is the cultural mecca of my heart, South Bend, Indiana. Breakfast Farmer’s Market Cafe (open T, Th, Sat) (the most sacred spot and most…

In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. — Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 If there is anything virtuous, anything worthy of admiration, think of these things above…