Kicking the Can of Celibacy by Tony Bartlett

Kicking The Can Of Celibacy With the Richter-scale crack in Roman Catholicism caused by Benedict XVI’s dramatic resignation it seems an apt moment to take another look at priestly celibacy. If the retiring pope seeks to make way for a more energetic successor,...

Blessed Bewilderment – by Corrie Block

Blessed Bewilderment Thereforever I bewildered of the answer unfulfillered To the question never nearer near to me than to my dearer Answer there presented me the clever never foolery The key to meaning's door betrayed me never near to thee it bade me   Yet...

Praise for the Master – Laura Merzig Fabrycky

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010Amman, Jordan© Laura Merzig FabryckyPraise for the MasterYou, the Storyteller!You, the Poet!Great crafter of beauty and intrigue   and the framing of images   before the mind's eye of the   awake and the...

Hegemony by Foster Stuart

Hegemony by Foster Stuart The term, “hegemony” is used in at least two main ways: 1) as a more or less neutral term describing a geo-political state of affairs and 2) as a more loaded term, referring to the domination of democratic-capitalism in the twentieth-century....

Failing in Wartime – Laura Merzig Fabrycky

MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010Amman, Jordan© Laura Merzig Fabrycky Failing in Wartime It has never not been wartime.They have always been dying andgrieving—deep,rib-cage-gasps of lament.And I have been idle at my computer,checking my Facebook account forthe latest distraction...