ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE

Audio: Listen to this post. Joey An interdepartmental feud PROLOGUE Brianna Smythe took one look at Joey and said to herself, Bingo. There’s my ticket to the Big Time. The young psychologist immediately knew her trip to New Harmony, Utah and the subsequent hassle with the local rednecks over the whereabouts of the cabin that Joey and his great-grandmother lived in were going to pay off in a big way. She observed that Joey established brief eye contact with her and then looked down at the porch floor. The young boy, who was a good

Audio: Listen to this post. The Old Girl Network to the rescue CHAPTER 11 Without the Old Girl Network, Brianna would have been lost. The New Sisterhood had infiltrated every level of the University. As a result, no aspect of President Harlan’s life was not available on some node of the Old Girl Network. In response to Brianna’s distress call, the New Sisterhood sprang into action. Soon, President Harlan was reading a confidential letter addressed to him by Janet Williams, a professor of journalism. Professor Williams explained that Dr. Smythe had been sand-bagged

Audio: Listen to this post. The best and the brightest?  CHAPTER 18 Brianna hesitated and then knocked on the door beneath the name “Governor ‘Bud’ Wheeler.” On the other side of the door, the voice of the people shouted, “Come in.” Brianna opened the door and said, “I’m Brianna Smythe, and this is Joey.” Three grinning campaign posters wrapped in red, white, and blue bunting and Governor “Bud,” himself, greeted Brianna and Joey. “Come in, come in,” the Governor said. A campaign smile and a handshake charged toward Brianna and Joey. Governor “Bud”

Audio: Listen to this post. The wisdom of our tribe nearly kills Joey CHAPTER 26 “Joey, do you know what the word ‘philosophy’ means?” Professor Thayer asked. The man-child shook his head. He had never been in the presence of a Master and was reluctant to speak. “The word ‘philosophy’ comes from the Greek — philia . . . sophia.” Professor Thayer pronounced each root of the word clearly and distinctly. “Philia means love and sophia means wisdom, so philosophy is the love of wisdom. Joey, do you know what ‘wisdom’ means?” Joey answered, “I’ve been told that wisdom

Audio: Listen to this post. The Covid-19 Pandemic has revealed that we no longer have the equivalent of such moral leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., Caesar Chavez, and Dorothy Day. These leaders in their actions embodied the Gospel of Love and the unshakeable Christian understanding of the human being taken from the Book of Genesis: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”[1] Every Christian denomination holds that in some way God, or Christ, is in each person and

Audio: Listen to this post. Has Deep Gloom Killed the Future? Before the Covid-19 Experiment focused our attention on not dying prematurely, most of us were enveloped in deep gloom, whose sources are still present. The two major political factions, the Left and the Right, promulgate apocalyptic images of the future that portray that we are fearfully close to a final descent into darkness; The human species is threatened by climate change; Kim Jong-un and Donald J. Trump can initiate nuclear war with the push of a button; the United States, China, and

Audio: Listen to this post. I had thought myself lost, had touched the very bottom of despair; and then, when the spirit of renunciation had filled me, I had known peace. . . . In such an hour, a man feels he has finally found himself.