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No One Wants to Hear This
A Catholic reflection on the Church’s real crisis: not external threats, but the loss of interior life, silence, and true spiritual transformation.
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The Yellow Death Trap
On a Mexican cliffside road with no guardrail, a packed bus meets an oncoming truck—metal scraping, gravel shifting, and nowhere to go.
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One Small Step, One Giant Leap
A lone traveler crosses into rural Mexico and walks into a silent valley where faith, solitude, and stark beauty converge. In a forgotten village and forest of obsidian, he confronts modern distraction, ancient ritual, and a turning point that reshapes his spiritual path.
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UPDATE: The Samson Option
Netanyahu is trying to annihalate the Iranian government. If they are in such danger, then there are no limits.
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Now I Am Become Death— the Destroyer of Worlds
A lone two-lane desert road stretches toward a vanishing horizon beneath a threatening sky, as a swirling dust cloud rises and sparse flora—creosote, yucca, and cactus—line the silent, perilous path.
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The ‘Colored Only’ Fountain
In 1969, passing through Atlanta on a Greyhound bus, I drank from a fountain marked “Colored Only”—and waited to see what would happen.
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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.
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Sorry, No Catholics Allowed
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.
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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 TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 