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Baseball, Leisure, and the Liturgy

By Mark Michael I went to a baseball game last Saturday, in the company of some of the people I love most. It was a beautiful...

A Beloved Tool and its Replacement

By Mark Michael When my father started as a hardware salesman, his boss handed him the catalog, the essential tool of his trade. Always in...

Praying for Renewal in Kentucky’s Holy Land

By Mark Michael You can spot them easily on maps of nationwide religious membership, three Catholic counties in central Kentucky, amid a sea of evangelicals....

On Letting Florida Decide

By Mark Michael In 2020, I served as an election judge in my town. The pandemic had left the county board short on volunteers, and...

Passion and Failure in the Church’s Story

Generally, we don’t review self-published books in our pages. Lacking professional editors, such volumes often suffer from internal repetitiveness, poor or outdated argumentation, and...

Learning to be a Guest

We could hear the hospitality crew a quarter mile before they came into view. The thumping bass of dance music cut through the dust...

The Soul of Philanthropy

By Mark Michael Back in June, billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced that he was resigning as a trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation....

Learning from a Craftsman

Tom has given his life to upholstery. His garage workshop is a maze of fabric bolts, sample books, and foam rolls, with a few...

A Classic Anglican Case for Public Worship

By Mark Michael Last week, I expressed concern that the normalization of so-called hybrid worship in our churches may accelerate trends toward “worship switching” among...

What Roy Gets About Worship

By Mark Michael On that sweltering morning last July when we held our first service of pandemic-season public worship at Saint Francis, Potomac, Roy was...

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