Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Many have commented that my piece going into the New Year was very dark. I understand how it might seem that way, but it actually was not. Every great crisis involving some sort of great dysfunction has roughly four stages: revelation, confrontation, conflict and resolution. Ever since I started writing publicly about […]
Read More The Hope of the New YearBy Charlie Johnston “Wait on the Lord: Be of good courage and he will strengthen thine heart: Wait, I say, on the Lord.” – Psalm 27:14 When entering uncharted ground that carries many potential dangers, the wise man proceeds with extreme caution. The fool insists he has already figured out the topography and goes charging […]
Read More Let Us Be Off to JerusalemBy Charlie Johnston Yuba City, California – In the ‘90s there was a craze for what were called Magic Eye images. These were sheets of chaotic computer-generated patterns. When looked at the right way, a vivid, three-dimensional image unrelated to the pattern would jump out at you. Once you saw it, you could not not […]
Read More God’s Plan Begins to Reveal Itself – if You RelaxBy Charlie Johnston (I have been pondering this piece for several weeks. I think we have entered difficult new territory in an irrevocable way. For those who asked, no, I have not been sick since getting home – just working my way through this piece. It lays out our way forward as I see it. […]
Read More Beyond the FailsafeBy Charlie Johnston It was a contemplative and somewhat melancholy Father’s Day for me last week. My Dad passed suddenly last November, so this was my first without Dad in this world. It was also the first in which I am the oldest father in my family line. In fact, except for an aunt three […]
Read More Remembrance of Things Past; Anticipation of Things to ComeBy Charlie Johnston Credible rumblings suggest that, before the spring is over, the Pope will effectively ban the Tridentine Mass altogether. While Pope Francis has made no secret of his contempt for the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), that may or may not be true. A classic tactic of battle, either political or actual, is to […]
Read More To Orthodox Catholic Bishops: Channel Your Inner DavidBy Charlie Johnston “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their lives is bound in shallows and in miseries.” -William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar) (While on the road, I am going to try adding a dateline to my […]
Read More The Rising TideWith all that’s been on Charlie’s plate in the last, nearly three, weeks, and with the continuing weightiness of what is happening around us – including the intensity many are experiencing with personal trials – it’s a good moment to revisit a piece filled with counsel which calls us to introspection and self-examination as we […]
Read More A Redux Brimming with Insight and WisdomBy Charlie Johnston ‘Twas the week before voting and all through the house, All the creatures were spinning, especially the louse, The ballot collection boxes set by the courthouse with care, While the lefties all prayed the Great Mule soon would be there… Ah, the week before an election like none I have ever seen […]
Read More Crises and HopeBy Beckita Hesse In April of this year, Charlie wrote: “I have asked Beckita, the editor of this site and my caregiver during the first brutal 23 days of my battle with Covid, to write an account of all the people who helped – and my attitude in extremis. It was much worse than we […]
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A Sign of Hope 