Patheos has shifted the combox technology over to Disqus and it wasn’t working on my blog for a few days. That is why your comments were not appearing. I have now fixed it with some help from The Anchoress, so feel free to comment again, and thanks for all the encouraging comments–especially on the “Help [...]

Here are two of my articles posted on Aleteia today. God in the Whirlwind and Scandals Christ and Superman. Support Aleteia. Get a Catholic view on news and current events.    

I have now posted the two longest versions of my conversion story to read free of charge. They can be accessed through the Archived Articles tab of the blog. If you would like to read them you can also link here. House of Mirrors is my chapter in The Path to Rome my first book– a book of [...]

One of the tabs at the top of the blog is for my Archived Articles. I have posted a number of my articles written for other periodicals, websites and papers. Does anyone use this facility? Would you like me to expand it? How could it be made easier for you to use? Feedback to the [...]

Poem for Pentecost The boy kneels as the Father prods the coals that glower in the thurible. The gray ash sticks, then crumbles, shifts and falls away. The embers surge orange before the granules, like tiny jewels, are spooned onto the fire. It is a simple ritual—almost quaint– done with ancient courtesy and restraint. In [...]