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Interestingly enough, the most recent issues of both The Atlantic and The New Yorker feature articles about Burma. Both are good reading and they complement each other, with very little cross-over. The Atlantic piece, “Lifting the Bamboo Curtain” by Robert Kaplan, examines the country’s present and recent past primarily via the diverse ethinic composition of…

From Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley (it’s a pdf file) “On the Separation of Sense and State” So good. (Sorry for the lousy formatting – copied it from the pdf file.) Catholic public leaders inconvenienced by the abortion debate tend to take a hard line in talking about the “separation of Church and state.” But…

Okay – here are some worthy links for you. Remember – I’ve got the delicious feed over there on the right, updated several times a day with random reads (and yes, I have tried to make it collect them as an automated blog post – but to no avail. I have no idea what I’m…

All right, so Nancy Pelosi was on Meet the Press, speaking with Tom Brokaw. Among other things, she said: MR. BROKAW: Senator Obama saying the question of when life begins is above his pay grade, whether you’re looking at it scientifically or theologically. If he were to come to you and say, “Help me out…

I heard something – a loud THUMP/CRASH in the middle of the night, but because it was the middle of the night, I wasn’t sure. Well…                     I don’t think the owners even know yet – there was no one out there (this was one parking…

Here’s a reminder of things. A reminder of what, for example, Pope Benedict is talking about almost every time he opens his mouth or sets pen to paper. It is the time of year for many parishes to recruit for parish “ministries.” To have ministry fairs or ministry assemblies or what have you. Listen, as…

Well, not really. But I can’t think of what else to call it. Does anyone else have celebrities who are about your own age, who have functioned as a sort of benchmark for you through the years? You know, someone who you’ve looked at and thought, “Well, I’m getting old, but at least I’m looking…

Birmingham Botanical Gardens Which, I predict, will be a frequent destination. Why? Follow along: 1 3-year old + 90 minute walk around gardens + (Did I mention it’s free?) = 2 1/2 hour nap. It just all adds up, that’s all. (Yes, the Zoo is right across the street from the Gardens, and yes, that’s…

For much of my childhood, I lived in apartments. We moved around a lot. Sometimes people here about all of the moves and the 8 schools I attended through high school and assume we were military. Nope. Academics. Close. Born in Bloomington, IN, then a year or so in D.C., a couple of years in…

Just a word on the blog – a reminder. Long-time readers will recall that this blog (and previous incarnations of it) used to be a ten-post a day type of blog in which I linked to everything, commented on lots of it, and hosted intense comment-box conversations on the issues – religious and otherwise –…
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