While a recent article by a Jesuit intellectual makes a valiant attempt to open the door for a more conciliatory approach in the Church’s dealing with LGBTQ people, in the end it misses the mark.
The Plane Truth
Fear takes on many forms when you are a child. Sometimes the worst fears are those which no one suspects. If you are lucky you can work through them and go on to a happy and healthy life.
Game: Amusement, Distraction, Diversion or Sport
This is what frightens me; what left a bad taste in my mouth before I was even born. What remains a problem to this day: We follow too easily. We forget too easily. We are too easily lured by pretty, empty promises.
The Psychology Behind Adverts
Psychology can be successfully applied to advertising to drive more sales. This is not a new thing – it’s a concept that’s been developed over hundreds of years. However, advertising always seems to be evolving and getting more advanced.
The Agony of Defeat
We as a society honor our victors, the winners, the ones who beat our agreed upon opponent, our enemy. Yet at what cost do our celebrations over the loss of another aid in our consciousness, our minds and our hearts?
Public Transportation Should Be Free
When I look deeper, I see another symptom of class warfare. Why do I see this? Because even as I write this, I know that those who don’t take the bus probably don’t care about the situation. $2.25 is no different than $3.25 to some, but to others, it is the difference between being here or there.
The Climate Crisis and Our Attachment to Comfort
I recall the mother of my sister’s childhood friend who drank a case of Diet Coke daily. You read that right. A case. Maybe not a full a case everyday, but she probably averaged that over the long run. She didn’t live to 50.
The Party Is Over
Life goes on, for some. The next civil war is over and the radical party now controls the country, what’s left of it. Power outages, famines, and pogroms, and a future which doesn’t have a place for those who are not the chosen ones.
Dog Person
Homo sapiens is a herding species. We know that in groups we are strong and can overcome everything. For millions of years that served us well. But does evolution and instincts mean we should be douches even though we might be the only one in the group who thinks what we are doing is wrong?
Devil Juice
Delali Norvor is a teenage writer residing in Maryland. Delali has shared with us one of the poems from a recently published book of her poetry called Baptized in GXLD.
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