What is happy? Hard to say when it feels like all I do is chase everything but happy. A text. An email. A flight. A bill. A fire to put out. A worry that won’t go away. Regret. Constant noise. So I run from it. Even if I’m eating the…
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Never has it been more important to keep your eyes open. In a world overwhelmed by endless inputs and biased information, it’s easy to fall into tunnel vision, focusing only on what entertains or briefly interests us. This is exactly what those with harmful intentions—be they literal terrorists or those…
Standing in liturgy this Sunday, a wave of despair washed over me. A multitude of decisions I wish I could take back swirled in my mind and created a blinding haze of despondency. Bad habits, hard to break, overwhelmed me. My body, worn and broken, reminded me that the fitness…
A tragic story out of New York paints a grim picture of how far we have fallen. One need only describe the scene to make an important point on the times we live in. A young woman sleeps on a subway car. An illegal immigrant pours accelerant on her and…
I’ve just finished Saint Theophan the Recluse’s, The Path to Salvation. The final chapter includes his translation of Saint John Chrysostom on raising children, and it completely unsettled my comfortable modern mindset. As Chrysostom lays out how to bring up children in the faith, the sheer weight of eternity and the…
The tyrannical government of Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown. He was a brutal dictator, deserving his place in the dustbin of history. His regime mastered the art of torturing and disappearing its own citizens, ruling through fear and intimidation. But war is rarely that clear-cut. Assad also protected one of…