Open Book: an anthology of remembrances

The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately.  Best reading of the past month for me: A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century, a collection of eulogies written by William F. Buckley, edited byContinue reading “Open Book: an anthology of remembrances”

Grace in a graceless season: prayer, votes, and the real goal

Spare a moment and a prayer for the political types, please and thank you. I’m one of them. Public policy is part of my vocation. Times like these, I’m tempted to wish it were otherwise. This is a plague-on-both-your-houses time. Something C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity captures my attitude. I feel a strong desireContinue reading “Grace in a graceless season: prayer, votes, and the real goal”