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The Christmas Miracle
For Christmas, this novella is a fictional account of one person’s search for God, for love, as he arrives at the final moment of his life. Calvin is a middle aged husband and father dying of cancer. He is spending … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, books, Christianity, Christmas, Fiction, Jesus, Miracles
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Image of God
Many years ago I wrote this poem after the birth of my third son. It is particularly appropriate during this season of advent; the poem can easily be applied to the Christ child. Image of God Sheltered in warmth, Cocooned … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby, Christ, Guardian Angel, Jesus, Love
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Being a Christian Scholar in a Secular Academic World
The culture wars of our times have been centered in universities since the emergence of the Counter Culture in the 1960s. University scholars have often taken the lead in progressive stances on ethical, cultural, and religious issues. For many years … Continue reading
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Tagged academe, Christianity, faith, god, philosophy, Religion, scholarship, secularism
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Understanding Divine Providence: Montaigne and the Fear of Death
The life and Essays of Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French Catholic philosopher, reveals how accepting the will of God helps a person face the overwhelming fear of mortality–in other words, to embrace death. Montaigne was neither saint, priest, nor … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, Death, faith, god, Jesus, Montaigne, Providence
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Modernity and Martyrdom: Dying for Providence
One of the great challenges to a person who believes that God’s will is always present is that Providence orders a world of growing irreligiosity, violence, terrorism, and atheistic ideologies. The divine plan is clearly beyond the human ability to … Continue reading
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The Virgin of Guadalupe
In 1759 in the coolness of an October morning just before dawn in the forest of southern Quebec, English soldiers stealthily crept up to a sleeping Algonquin village. On a signal from their commander, Robert Rogers, his men, the Rangers, … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, faith, Jesus, mary, saints, virgin-of-guadalupe
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Joseph Ratzinger and Providence
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was a theologian, academic, writer, and historian of Christianity who believed in Providence, that God’s will is present throughout time and place. Providence is the theme of the Psalms, indeed the entirety of the Bible; … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, pope-benedict-xvi, Providence
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Anno Domini
Humans have latched onto dating systems and chronologies as the means by which we keep track of ourselves vis a vis others in time. We keep track of where we are in terms of our own passing, our own age, … Continue reading
The Jesus Road
In the early 1830s, physician, scientist, and neophyte missionary Jean Louis Berlandier watched as his friend, an unnamed Kickapoo Indian, lay dying. The Kickapoo gave off a fierce appearance in his dress, paint, and bearing; he was a skilled hunter; … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacone College, bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, jesus-road
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Montaigne and Christianity
Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French aristocrat, was neither saint, priest, nor monk, rather a worldly man who lived in a secular time of conflict between Protestants and Catholics. Montaigne was a landowner, a government official, and soldier. He was … Continue reading
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The American Plutarch 