The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once made an observation that I rsquo ve often repeated in seemingly endless contexts a picture can hold you captive He meant that how we envision a thing can either limit or expand our understanding of it Take for instance your body Before you begin to co

A few weeks ago an unexpected email arrived leading to the smallest yet most treasured of discoveries It was akin to receiving an update from heaven specifically news of my father Not long ago I wrote a piece on scouting and Rich Meyer also a former member of Boy Scout Troop 153 saw the

Sister Leopoldina Burns recorded the event many years later when she was more than 65 years old Her English is a bit hard-pressed because she wrote late at night Twenty years in Hawaii and she was still working long days as a nurse A short distance from the office they entered a long narrow b

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Sister Leopoldina Burns recorded the event many years later when she was more than 65 years old Her English is a bit hard-pressed because she wrote late at night Twenty years in Hawaii and she was still working long days as a nurse A short distance from the office they entered a long narrow b

We all have our favorite gospel I like Luke for his story telling and his stress on women and the marginalized Matthew for his focus on the gentile converts John for his theology his focus on Jesus as the lsquo word rsquo of God and his play on light darkness And today rsquo s author Mark