“Jesus Christ, yesterday and today: the same forever!”

--The Apostle Paul, Hebrews 13:8, Douay-Rheims Bible--

Two talented journalists, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, wandered the known geography of their century in search of—something. A master of logic and a doctor of philosophy, the intellectual dandies strapped up in fitted suits and shined shoes for worldwide adventures of relaxation and inquiry. They…

Habemus papam, and everyone seems to know it. Something that surprised me during Pope Francis' election process was the way that this event seemed to produce an ripple of Catholic consciousness that extended far beyond the normal bounds of the Catholic community. I remember, for example, the way that several of my non-Catholic friends and acquaintances watched and listened to the media, hanging expectantly upon…

“If you can’t control your own house, how will you be able to control the White House?”

– Michelle Obama, 2007 presidential campaign speech

The word “economy” descends from the ancient Greek word oikonomia, meaning ‘law of the home.’ Whereas the market can be considered to be an institution whose main task is the preservation and sustenance of the already-developed Adult, the home is an institution whose main concern is the growth and progress of the ethically…

Like the master-signifier of reality, the hanging portrait of a prophet hovered in the air of a vacated instruction room, smiling with relief over a group of the elect youth of God's Zion who had been selected by heavenly beings in heavenly places to live in the latter days of human history and to call downtown Salt Lake City their home.

Our fearless leader was a young urban twentysomething who had managed to negotiate the waist of her yellow pencil-skirt by means of a thin, tan belt…