Patience and Hope: The Fairytale of a Girl’s Dreams
Bad guys avoid good girls, the way wimps avoid warriors. For many young women, their choices are often lonely ones, because on the road to God, there are only three people; her, the devil and…
Category: Miscellaneous Nonfiction
The Glow: A Summer Memoir
“A trip down memory lane to when life was much simpler, sweeter, and where innocence lived. Where there was a magic that we all experienced as kids. I look around now…at the summers of my…
Titanic Quarter: Belfast and the Exhibition of its Most Famous Legacy
If London was the first UK city I had known about, then Belfast was the second one thanks to its connection to the RMS Titanic, which has been a long-time interest of mine and remains…
Interfaith Corner: The Heart of Religion
For many, many years, I’ve been fascinated with the commonality of religions. This is a big thing in India where, to avoid communal conflict, often the phrase - “all religions teach the same…
East to Chicago: A Memoir of 1920’s America
In the fall of 1924, Dad and Mother decided to take a trip back east to Chicago so Dad could visit his siblings, nephews, and nieces. This was heralded by us kids almost as much…
JRR Tolkien’s University Model: An Authentic Liberal Arts Movement
Western civilisation is grounded in a Trinitarian vision of the human person. In this vision there is an eternal “exitus” (outpouring) and “reditus” (return) from the transcendent Divine Godhead to the human person, grounded in…
Is Faith Reasonable?: Being Receptive to All Reality
Humans are truth seeking creatures (“Is Faith Reasonable?”). We are always asking questions that reason alone cannot answer. Questions such as: How did the universe come to be? There is a loving relationship that humans…
Beauty Beheld: Reawakening Appreciation for Womanhood
Man is the only thing in the universe capable of seeing beauty. Chimpanzees don’t spend hours contemplating the harmony of their mate, or the coloring of autumn leaves. No dolphin goes into ecstasy over the…
An Observation on Gender Identity
Scan a listing of local births in any newspaper, and you will find only two categories: girl or boy. But that label only describes the physical aspects of our bodies, for as children grow, it…
When Harry and Meghan Took the World to Church: An African-American Perspective on a Royal Wedding
As a person who has had a long-running interest in the British monarchy and just about all things British, there was no doubt as to me watching the royal wedding of Prince Harry and…