Beauty Amid Destruction: Titanic’s Celtic Window
When the RMS Titanic slipped beneath the waves 106 years ago today, she was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and after all this time underwater, examples of her beauty…
Category: Miscellaneous Nonfiction
Solo Flight: Finding Inspiration in the Airport
It was my first solo flight. I’d made it through customs with only two near panic attacks and had now for two solid hours clung to both my backpack and my plane ticket like either…
Egalitarian Gal: Feminism, Equality, and How We Treat Each Other
Let’s discuss equal rights. I’m a feminist. At least, I’d like to consider myself one, except for that little but vital bit about feminism where it seems you have to also subscribe to the pro-choice…
G-d: The Not-thing
Editor's Note: Rabbi Freeman is a regular contributor to Chabad.org, where a version of this article was originally published, and later adapted for the purposes of this publication. *** Somewhere along the way, you feel as…
The Divine Doctor: Suffering and Healing in the Christian Life
“Jesus told him, ‘Go your way; your faith has saved you.’ Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.” Marvelous, the ease with which Jesus, the Son of God, cured the sick,…
Those Final Fateful Hours: A Triduum Reflection
Some twenty centuries ago in the Ancient Holy City of Jerusalem, thirteen men were assembled to celebrate the Pascal Feast of The Passover in a place that has come to be known as “The Upper…
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men: A Reflection on the Spirit of Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Don’t you think? This song just about always put a big smile on my face, which can only be topped when I hear “Feliz Navidad”. What is it…
Easter in My Landscape: Celtic Reflections on the Season
It is through the ‘Book of Nature’ that I came to Christ. My journey to faith was through a sense of the divine in all things, and some wonderful messages of Truth which I saved…
Regeneration of the Soul: The Liturgy and the Mystery of Resurrection
The mystery of Easter is the center and culmination of the entire liturgical year. Every mystery of the Faith which we celebrate throughout the whole year is directed and ordered to the Resurrection. Without the…
Me and Sister Mary Bernard: A Reflection from My School Years
Around 1925, Mother and Dad entered us into St. Matthias School in Huntington Park, with the Sisters of Notre Dame. One of the first things I learned about the sisters was how to pronounce Notre…