Monday, February 2, 2026

The Trouble with Organized Religion

A few years back, I read a book called The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie. It was a parallel biography of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy. Four influential mid-twentieth-century Catholics.

Commentary on Psalm 50/51

The reason for the numbering confusion is that the numbering and breakdown of the Psalms is a bit different in the Septuagint version, the Greek translation of the Bible that took place in Alexandria, Egypt,  in the third century and that also set the canon of the New Testament.

Recent Poetry, February 2026

Sin’s Origin

Sit still and quiet every day,
Your problems will not go away.
But you’ll learn where they arise:
It’s thinking.  Not a big surprise.