RMDell'Orfano

Food Can Kill … or Cure

A sudden illness sends a young pilgrim to Boston’s Rising Sun clinic, where he encounters a radical idea: food itself may be the body’s first medicine.

At age twenty-six in the summer of 1968, I visit the Bruderhof community in northern Connecticut, stepping through its stone wall and wrought-iron gate into a pastoral world that feels suspended in time.

When Providence Moves …

In the summer of 1968, a hitchhiking pilgrim experiences Providence in motion, receives unexpected hospitality in Amherst, and witnesses a startling moment at a Connecticut turkey farm.

The Medicine

A young man leaves the ordered stillness of an abbey and steps onto a dusty road, choosing solitude and faith over security in this memoir excerpt from Path Perilous: My Search for God and the Miraculous.

Rhetorical Mercy

Real compassion is harder because it requires juggling two truths at once—without dropping either.

Terror in the Night

A night of shelter at a remote monastery descends into terror when a fellow traveler appears at the foot of the bed with a knife. What follows is a silent vigil of fear, prayer, and survival beneath the Abbey’s ancient walls.

Atlas Shrugged In California

California is living Atlas Shrugged: inventiveness collapses, elites drift, billionaires exit—and Joe Sixpack inherits the bill.

OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN

A winter day in 1967 Boston becomes a wordless lesson in faith, hunger, and social blindness, as cold, abundance, and waste collide on Christmas in Beacon Hill.

The DIGITAL DOLLAR DEATH-TRAP

The GENIUS Act didn’t modernize money—it gave the government a kill switch over your wallet. Why digital dollars threaten privacy, resilience, and freedom.

Living Deliberately—In Quiet Desperation

My soul longed to stand tall, even as it remained shackled to the cowardice of my flesh.