There’s no need for me to point out the importance of domesticated animals to the millions of those with whom they share their lives. In many instances, these creatures are as beloved and cherished as family; for others, they are family. Happy National Pet Day! “My Dog Skip” (2000) Willie Morris (top image) grows up…
Top 5 Pet Movies: To Our Loveable Furry Companions on National Pet Day (April 11)
Global Panic | Documentary
April 10, 2023
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Amid the 2020 COVID pandemic, the world seemed as though it might be coming to an end. Panic struck the world’s citizens, stores were cleaned out, and neighbors were shunned as virus carriers. Amid this chaos, courage and compassion were born within our world’s communities. Individuals set their own needs aside to help others: a…
Family Fables: Albert Anker’s ‘Grandfather Telling a Story’
Four children sit around an elderly man, their grandfather, and listen attentively as he tells a story in Albert Anker’s painting, “Grandfather Telling a Story” (1884). The setting for this painting is a rural Swiss homestead. Farming by peasants was the mainstay of the economy in most 19th-century European countries. Their farmsteads sustained them and…
Motivation, Road-Blocks, and Self-Transformation
Self-help, personal development, self-improvement, learning and development, education—we have a million and one names for this process, but what they all boil down to is this age-old spiritual idea of self-transformation. While the concept of religion is far too big to address in an article such as this, one broad truism we might draw from…
Righteous Determination Forges a Pathway to God’s Kingdom
Our environment is filled with things that test our character. Sometimes, we successfully overcome these things, and other times, we fall short and fail. Yet failure isn’t necessarily the end of the road; through determination, we can still find ourselves favorable to God. We continue our story of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” Raphael has finished…
Heavenly Flute: ‘An Angel Playing the Flageolet’
Some famous writers have played a woodwind instrument known as the flageolet: Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chalon, Samuel Pepys, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Composers such as Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel wrote pieces for it. Musicians began to play this recorder-like instrument in the 1700s in France, and it began to be known as the…
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Sonnet: ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire’
When we look at a landscape, we probably aren’t thinking about it as a clamorous system of self-proclamations. Gerard Manley Hopkins saw it that way. For Hopkins, each thing in creation is continually proclaiming itself just by being. In the unconscious flutter of wings is the dramatic force of a being dealing out its inmost…
Easter: An Ancient Story For a Modern World
April 8, 2023
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Billions of Christians will celebrate Easter this weekend, but the message of Jesus is available to all. Even those who are not religious can learn from the life of Jesus Christ. In today’s culture, we often talk about whose lives matter, but the Easter story tells us that all lives matter to God. Jesus displays…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The First Legion’: The Walk From Doubt to Faith
Unrated | 1 h 26 min | Drama | 1951 Ignatius of Loyola was a 16th-century soldier who, before a battle, ruined his leg; surgeries left one leg shorter, enforcing a lifelong limp. During his painful recovery, he waged a spiritual battle with his worldly self. Douglas Sirk’s film, “The First Legion,” is about priests…
Film Review: ‘Air’: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Go Good Shoe Hunting
R | 1h 51m | Sports, Dramedy | April 5, 2023 When Michael Jordan retired from basketball, that was it for me—I stopped watching. Pro and college games are still exciting, and Lebron is great, but it’s the state of basketball in the world today that depresses me. When I walk past Manhattan high school basketball courts and see…
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