Creativity is a wonderful thing. I helped edit a book by George Land and Beth Jarman called Nature’s Hidden Force that made an intriguing argument for what the authors called “Creative Connecting” as a natural... Read More

A New York Times op-ed piece last week shined some light into the one of the darkest corners of our society: the practice of forcing children into marriage. United Nations data indicate that some 37,000... Read More

Congress, as usual, is stuck. Despite Republican promises that once they won control of both houses they’d push through all sorts of laws, they’re not even able to pass most of their own proposals (which... Read More

One of the legitimate complaints about Pope Francis is that he talks a good game, but has actually done almost nothing in his two-and-a-half years in office to change Catholic doctrines or practices. That complaint... Read More

Most of the civilized world has laws banning gratuitous cruelty to animals. I suppose we humans can pat ourselves on the back for this because these laws don’t selfishly benefit any of us. We’re just... Read More

The Alice in Wonderland world of religious legal exemptions took an even stranger turn last month. Two strange turns, in fact, in one case. At first glance, March for Life vs. Burwell seems generally similar... Read More

Last week, I pointed out how the Laudato Si’ environmental encyclical dismisses population growth as an underlying cause of environmental degradation while scorning technology and economics as appropriate solutions for it. So what does Pope... Read More