A rhythm of growth, beauty, and quiet intention There is a particular moment each spring when the garden shifts—from preparation to promise. This year, that moment felt especially meaningful. What began as structured beds and early greens has now started to take on life, movement, and personality. My kitchen garden is no longer just planted—it […]
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Christmas is one of the most important days of the Church year, second only to Easter itself. Celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is the culmination of the mystery of the incarnation, the feast of God becoming flesh. The Divine choosing to become one of us. Emmanuel, God-With-Us. And so, we feast
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While eating lunch with a new friend (Cheryl Dufrane) who read aloud to me a poem that she had recently penned, I knew I wanted to publish it here. With her gracious permission, I have included it in this post for your edification and enjoyment. Read it. Savor it. Think about it.
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Something extraordinary happened to me the summer before I entered the sixth grade. I didn’t recognize it as extraordinary at the time, nor do I recall anyone around me thinking so at the time. Rather, it was one of those quiet, unobtrusive markers driven into the ground that provides insight into the essence of a
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Two years ago today, on March 11, 2020, the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. Like millions of others, that historic moment and that specific event started me on a personal journey of research and discovery that continues to shape my opinions and my view of the world today. Throughout that year (2020), a couple
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P. Andrew Sandlin wrote a phenomenal book entitled Creational Worldview: An Introduction. Since reading it last Spring, I have used it constantly as a reference, pulling it out and referencing parts of the book as I was working through ideas about a specific topic. Chapter 5 of Sandlin’s book, “A Christian Environment-View” has been so
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The roots of our Thanksgiving heritage are entwined with the story of the Pilgrims (people who journey to a destination usually because of their religious beliefs) who believed that God was leading them to establish a new community where they could worship freely. As Americans, we celebrate Thanksgiving every year because of the profound faith
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I’m at the Emerald Coast this morning. I have never seen the beach like this before. The reason, of course, is because Hurricane Ida is scheduled to hit Louisiana with full Category 4 force later today. Don’t even ask me what I am doing here at a time when others are evacuating. Is it some
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity
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