https://www.prageru.com/courses/environmental-science/climate-change-what-do-scientists-say In light of the recent March for Science, the above video provides, in my opinion, a well-balanced take on Climate Change. I am as confused as… Read more “Thoughts on Climate Change”

My latest for the Knoxville News Sentinel: http://www.knoxnews.com/story/life/2017/04/22/bob-hunt-trusting-jesus-easter-and-every-day/100579896/ Be Christ for all.  Bring Christ to all.  See Christ in all.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445061/middle-east-christian-martyrs-practice-love-forgiveness http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445061/middle-east-christian-martyrs-practice-love-forgiveness The article above speaks about the tradition of forgiveness among the Coptic Christian and the impact this is having among Coptic Christians who had become… Read more “Forgiveness in the Face of Terror”

THE EXILE and RESTORATION  Suggested Readings: Ezra 7:11-26; Nehemiah 8:1-12; Nehemiah 13:4-31; Tobit 7-8; Judith 10:20-14:5; Judith 14:11-15:3; Esther 7:1-8:2; 1 Maccabees 2:1-48; 1 Maccabees 3-4; 2… Read more “Exile and Restoration”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/04/18/gorsuch-and-religious-liberty-new-justice-could-hear-most-important-religious-freedom-case-this-term-in-first-week.html The above link is an article that provides an excellent summary of the issues surrounding the case of Trinity Lutheran Church being denied a grant by… Read more “Religious Freedom Case Reaches SCOTUS”

The Fifth Way of St. Thomas Aquinas: The Argument from Final Ends We see in the natural order that there are things that lack intelligence that nevertheless… Read more “God Is: An Introduction to the Evidence for the Existence of God, Part 11”

Cornelia Connelly’s life is one of the more challenging and complicated of all of the Saints, Beati, Venerabili and Servants of God of America. Born in Philadelphia,… Read more “Sanctity in America: Ven. Cornelia Connelly”

Man deported five times since 1998 charged in deadly hit and run crash http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/undocumented-husband-indiana-trump-voter-deported-article-1.3024780 http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/fairfield/parish-prays-for-local-mother-being-deported Here are three important stories about immigration.  The first is the case… Read more “Thoughts on Immigration, Part 5”

Kateri Tekakwitha was born around 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, near present-day Auriesville, New York. Her father was a Mohawk chief named Kenneronkwa, and her… Read more “Sanctity in America: St. Kateri Tekakwitha”

LET all Pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast; let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their… Read more “The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom”