The title of this talk is: Logos: In the beginning was the Word—The nature and power of language. After some further prayer and reflection, I would like to add a subtitle to the talk: The end of education!

I like Burley Coulter. I like him, at least in part, because he "caused a lot of trouble for himself and other people," as Wendell Berry puts it.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, today's liturgy presents to us enlightening yet at the same time disconcerting words of Christ.

At the risk of seeming disrespectful or irreverent, I'd like to propose that the parable in today's Gospel is, well, funny.

Allowing ourselves to feel suffering is the only way to heal from suffering.

As a teen in the 1980s, I was at a moral crossroads.

A friend of mine recently told me that he and his wife (devout Catholics) had decided to cancel their Disney+ subscription for their elementary school–aged children.

"These people will also discover the seemingly insignificant conventions their predecessors have destroyed…

Even before I met my now-husband, I became socially plugged into the network of homeschooling families in my state and began planning on homeschooling my future children.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted". (Mt 5:4)  In his commentary on this Beatitude in Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI writes that there are two kinds of mourning: