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February 2021

February 10, 2021

We Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion

Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

What Is Wrong With the Christian Religion?

White supremacists should hate and fear all that the church stands for. Yet look how...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

We Shall Have Our Anger. We Shall Have Our Sorrow

People tell us that sorrow and anger are unproductive , and I don't believe it....

May 2020

May 22, 2020

Today, I Am Ashamed of the United States

How can we call ourselves a “Christian nation” when, instead of standing in collective mourning...

November 2019

November 17, 2019

What Lies At the Root Of the Denial Of “Ecological Sin”?

In the past, repeatedly, experts on ecology have issued dire warnings regarding the effects of...

March 2019

March 23, 2019

Good Local and Bad Local: An Eco Grower’s Perspective

This was when I began to see the phenomenon of “bad local.” The kind of...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Trump Is Just A Symptom, Not A Cause

The problem in short, for Epstein and his like, is that Trump takes what they...

January 2018

January 20, 2018

My Statement on the 2018 March for Life

I stand for a movement that seeks to protect all life, but also recognizes the...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

With the Paris Accord, Listen to our Popes – Not Trump

Why can we not see how our sinfulness mars the very soil on which we...

April 2017

April 05, 2017

my family did the benedict option before it was cool – and here’s why it doesn’t work

And there’s something touchingly tragic about it: because on a fundamental level, one can see...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

the feast of st. patrick, potato famine, and the consequences of injustice

So if indigenous slaves hadn't been forced to harvest bat poo in Peru, and if...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

but what about all these other pipelines?

I am thrilled to hear that the Army Corps of Engineers has opted to find...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

if you care about patriotism, stand with the protesters; if you care about freedom, stand with amy goodman

You need to hear what it's like, right here where it's happening, but Big Media...

August 2016

August 03, 2016

I wrote a piece about baby-hating, and this is what I learned

If one can not reject hatred of persons, if one can not embrace a willingness...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

subsidiarity is not isolationism

Subsidiarity is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

June 03, 2016

scapegoating, nature, and narcissism: some thoughts on the cincinnati zoo incident

It is ironic that in our quest to overcome all boundaries, we have enclosed other...