Shit: Excerpt from F. Buechner’s “Book of Bebb”

Bebb said, "That man knows his history, Antonio. It’s his special subject, and he knows it inside and out. He reeled off a whole list of times and places where he said we’d met before. He told about the days they had children eight, ten years old and...

Penny’s Thoughts on Life by Penny Gabor

Having read something inspiring this morning, I sit down once again to respond with my own thoughts.  I seem to do this frequently, but my life is crammed with my four little kids all vying for my attention, so this probably won’t last too long.  I will soon...

A Prophecy Unheeded III: Erasmus, 1514

Excerpts from an open letter written by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam to Abbot Antony Bergen (addressing Emperor Maxmillian), 1514. Cited in Erasmus and our Struggle for Peace, by Jose Chapiro (Boston: Beacon Press, 1950). I see great movements arising. . . . May...

The Sound of God’s Silence by Erin Buczkowski

Society is geared to respond to sound. To pick up cues for their entry into conversation, often layering personal comments over those of a companion. Interrupting one another and oneself. Call waiting, the modern brother of a kid tugging at his mom’s sleeve while she...