Scribbling in Ordinary Time

           What do we mean by Africa?  On the surface this seems to be a ridiculous question. Africa is a continent; a body of land consisti...

One of the ways I put myself in the shoes of other cultures and peoples is to read their literature.  I have read such novels as Endo’s Sile...

         The Benedict Option by Richard Dreher fails as a book, and on the whole as a project. It fails not because of what it is but becaus...

In her book Minority Body Elizabeth Barnes in my opinion both makes a prescient observation, those with a physical handicap are onto themsel...

Pry open the souls of men. Their blackened ears, Their broken pain, their dying lives can not hold the tears. Their bodies purchased an...

POEM 1 It is in the land of the human heart Are were the greatest battles are fought. To the depths of the broken being,  On a Ri...

Collect 1 Father of all the Nations, You have sought from the very beginning for mankind to diversify and multiple across the many bord...