Years ago when I was deciding what to study in college, one of the dominant thoughts was this: I want to make enough money that I never have to do my own yard work. I settled on mechanical engineering. And soon, instead of making money mowing lawns and pulling weeds as I had for most […]
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This article appeared in the October print edition of America Magazine Like almost every other child in the Catholic parish where I grew up in Portland, Ore., my siblings and I were home-schooled. Our parish had a robust home-schooling community that organized group classes, dances, camping trips and graduation ceremonies. When my siblings and I
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The Hundredfold and the Restless Heart In 1954, the Italian priest Luigi Giussani was teaching in a public high school in Milan. He saw that, while his students knew the “right answers” of the Catholic faith that was so much a part of Italian culture, it had nothing to do with their lives. He began
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The technology exists for fast, daily coronavirus testing, but the U.S. has been slow to adapt. At Trinity Academy, the school where I teach in North Portland, we have spent much of the summer meeting with a task-force including faculty, parents and public health experts, to determine how to safely reopen the school for partially
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A meditation on Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line At the beginning of Terrence Malick’s epic World War II film The Thin Red Line, Private Witt, played by Jim Caviezel, is AWOL on an island in the south Pacific, living with a Melanesian tribe. In those people, he encounters something that he cannot necessarily name –
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