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We have to remember that we are not in charge of making things turn out all right. That’s God’s job. We are just in charge of being faithful. We are just supposed to be faithful. The rest is God’s part. — Fr. Richard John Neuhaus

By the way, this is what happens to my wife & daughters after an afternoon of shopping on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue.

What happens when abstractions override experience? Tod Worner reflects on Flannery O’Connor’s enduring warning about the limits of theory. loom.ly/pNXthgU

My latest with Law & Liberty.

In the newest episode of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast, Bishop Robert Barron and Tod Worner discuss the life-changing experience of encountering true beauty.  Watch now: youtu.be/1Da_iimVfGw

Love having this conversation with Bishop Robert Barron. I hope you check it out!

Loved visiting Chartwell Booksellers in Manhattan & chatting with founder & proprietor Barry Singer. And I spent way too much money.

The future starts today, not tomorrow. —St. John Paul II

Encyclicals are not as intimidating as you might think. In fact, reading one may just change your life. Read this outstanding essay from Caroline Kurt.

The first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. —Irving John Good, British mathematician My latest at Word on Fire. wordonfire.org/articles/georg…

Don’t compare yourself to others. If you do, ask if you would trade all-for-all — everything you are, have, will be for everything they are, have, will be (not a la carte). When you find there is NO ONE you would trade all-for-all, relax, admire, & emulate. No reason for envy.

My latest at Word on Fire.

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This guy is pretty good.

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Ralph Waldo Emerson