“Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.”

–Senator John Kennedy (R, Louisiana)

Well, now I know why our government shut down travel and commerce. It wasn’t Covid 19. They needed buses, planes, convention centers, and […]

“Allow the children to come to me,” Jesus said. “Don’t forbid them, because the kingdom of Heaven belongs to people like these children.”

–Matthew 19:14 (Common English Bible)

Whether or not it has touched our own lives, the issue of abortion is a deeply personal one. Sadly, it is also used as a political weapon in elections and when there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court. Of course, it’s been the law […]

America! America! God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

–“America the Beautiful” (Katharine Lee Bates)

One year ago today, I developed respiratory symptoms that turned out to be Covid 19. My wife and I were sick for a week. Nothing terrible. Lucky, to say the least.

We’d just returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. The cruise […]

How do you boil a frog without it jumping out of the pot? Put it in tepid water and turn up the heat gradually until the water reaches a boil and the frog is cooked.

— Rana Temporaria*

Let me begin by stating I take the pandemic seriously. It has killed over 500,000 Americans, and the havoc that it and the unintended negative consequences of our response to it have wreaked won’t […]