Monthly Archives: February 2014
Searching for God in a shallow grave
A while back I attended a funeral for a non-practicing Catholic. A spiritual-but-not-religious person led a short, non-denominational service replete with twangy songs about...
Dignity for All
In all the debates that are going on in the world, there is, perhaps, none that are so relative as that which surrounds abortion,...
Reed of God
Fanny Price, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, makes a striking comment one evening while waiting for a carriage. She says the time...
A breath of fresh air
I wore braces for about four years, after which I immediately had oral surgery to cut the fibres behind my front teeth to prevent...
