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On Christian Compassion: “Compassion is an enduring motif in the history of Christianity.  It is not unique among Christians, nor is it activated evenly across all believers.  But when Christianity shines, it often does so because of compassion. As Pope Francis wrote, “The Church’s very credibility is seen in how she shows her merciful and…

As you grow older you notice that everything falls away. I recently calculated that at age 76, around 85 percent of my life has been spent and I probably only have about 15 percent left, i.e. the gas gauge is about to hit the “low on fuel” indicator! That caused me to notice a poem…

Yesterday I visited the humble retirement home, a house on Highway 71 that had been occupied by my grandparents some sixty years ago. It is located in the Danish farming village of Danevang, Texas. One by one, the town’s immigrant farmers slowly retired to this simple stretch of rural roadway, just down from the community’s…