Religion

Making God Smile 25
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- May 16, 2025
There’s an old Yiddish proverb that says, “Mann tracht, un Gott lacht,” which translates, “Man plans, and God laughs.” Woody Allen rehabbed it for his audiences: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” My plans over a long life have surely provoked gales of laughter from the Almighty. In college, I changed
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Weighing Papal Words With Wisdom and Discernment 19
- Family, History, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 12, 2025
Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would
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Five Ways to Reinfuse Religion into American Society 24
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- May 1, 2025
It’s the National Day of Prayer, that one day a year that we seriously take a few minutes (or maybe not even that) to say a prayer that our nation will turn back to God and get serious about living right. It’s a beautiful and good tradition – with leaders dating all the way back
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Trump’s Easter Message Shows That God Works in Mysterious Ways 26
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- April 21, 2025
Love him or loathe him, Americans would agree that President Donald Trump delivers bombshell policies and critiques like no one else, yet on April 13th he sent a message to the American people that left me speechless when my daughter first read it to me. In his “Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025,” Trump opens
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Why Is Christianity Increasingly Attractive to Men?13
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 17, 2025
Holy Week is upon us once again, the week which starts with little children hitting one another with the palm branches they received at church and culminates eight days later as those same angels sit “in their Easter bonnet(s) with all the frills upon it.” For many Americans, Holy Week is no more than these
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DOGE and the Synergy of All Things 13
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion
- March 26, 2025
“It was a wicked and wild wind/Blew down the doors to let me in,” goes the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida.” Released in 2008, it includes the reflections of a deposed king as he looks back on his reign, including the time mentioned above, the moment that he took power. The line always interested me
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