There is a crack in my name . . . Before, it just sat there, whole and untroubled on the corner of my desk, painted around the side of a white porcelain mug that is at least a century old. It is flanged out at the top and bottom, gilded around
As a Bridgerton fan, I found myself anticipating season three, featuring Penelope and Colin’s love story, not for the two romantic leads’ story as much as for the hopeful righting of another love story that had ruptured in season two—that of best friends Penelope and Eloise. As a fan and
With the seemingly never-ending sequence of misfortunes and disasters that fill the news, it takes only a cursory glance at the news headlines to evoke one’s interest in a book which promises a “science of the cross.”[1] What could such a science be, and might it offer some hope for
People today access Scripture primarily through printed bibles and, increasingly, electronic media. It goes without saying that before the technologies that made print and electronic bibles possible, people encountered the sacred text in much different ways. The same can be said, of course, for the authors responsible for composing the
When I was growing up in upstate New York, art was my first love, especially drawing and painting. That passion for art, which I wrote about in an essay, together with thirty-three-millimeter slides I made of some artwork I had done in high school, helped me do something unusual for
In the course of my post-graduate studies in Rome, I came home to do research. At some point during an evening conversation with my father, I asked him: “Papa, why did you abandon the gods of our ancestors?” He looked at me with very penetrating eyes and said: “My son,
When I was nine years old, I moved from the swamps of southern Florida to East Tennessee. Even before our relocation, my initiation into the history of country music had been substantial. In 1989, I saw Tammy Wynette in a flea market in southern Florida, not quite aware of the
The concept of “co-responsibility,” introduced by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009[1] and elaborated in 2012,[2] recently took a step onto center stage with the synthesis document from the first session of the Synod on Synodality. Notably, no established theology of co-responsibility yet exists. It is simultaneously an ecclesiological concept and