Abraham's Journey
I published this piece a little over three years ago. It is more urgent to contemplate now than it was then. The bolded italic comments in red are my current comments on the original text: Most men will forgive you for being wrong. Some will never forgive you for being right It may surprise some […]
Read More Seek to be True, Not Just to be RightBy Charlie Johnston I am working on a rather meaty column. On the road, it is hard to get the uninterrupted time for contemplation I need to get this done. It is consequential. My thoughts turned to a column I wrote on December 27, 2014. That column was prompted by a vision I had a […]
Read More The Magma is Among UsI repeat today my little story from the original Holy Week What follows is fiction. I used the literary device of an archaeological find, but it is fiction entirely from my meditation on the Crowning of Thorns. This is NOT definitely what happened with Pilate, but merely my meditation on what MIGHT have happened with […]
Read More Epitaph_______________________________________ Updates and Alerts for 4/14/19: Welcome to our new feature, Updates and Alerts! For any of you who have been unable to stay logged into your WordPress account, please click HERE for a possible solution. This tech document can also be found in the Page “Answers to Techie Questions” in the Menu area (click […]
Read More Tech Updates(I wrote this story during Advent of 1996. I have gotten in the habit of reprinting it each year at this time. I hope you enjoy it – and Merry Christmas!-CJ) Joseph’s Way Posted on November 2, 2015, by charliej373 By Charlie Johnston The true son of true God was adopted by a man, that […]
Read More A Little Christmas StoryI have just switched us over to our new primary domain, and it is working this time. EVERYONE should now bookmark this new URL, asignofhope379.com, and use it from now on. Please bookmark this new site address right now! We are switching to this new address to give ourselves some additional flexibility should that be […]
Read More New Web Address is Working!Nov 19 approx 8:30 pm ET: I apologize to everyone. I have attempted a change in the site address and have created a problem. Please read as you wish, but accounts on WordPress.com may not work, comments may not register. I am seeking answers as fast as I can. SteveBC Edit #1 later in this […]
Read More Issues with web addresses(I am in Baltimore right now. Regular readers know I have a somewhat ambivalent take on Michael Voris’ Church Militant. Voris is a brilliantly talented man who delves into troubling things in the Church better than anyone else out there – but I get annoyed at times because I think he sometimes lets his narrative […]
Read More The Ballad of the Ordinary Man, Part II Revisited(Beckita is right that the last two weeks have been frantically busy for me. I start here by reprising the First Installment of the Ballad. It was published last April – and re-reading it, seemed incredibly apropos for the day before election in America-CJ) By Charlie Johnston Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore […]
Read More The Ballad of the Ordinary Man, Part 1 ReprisedI was deeply moved by the letter of this young Italian girl, Sara Mansardo, to the Bishops on the occasion of the Synod on Youth. It was highlighted in the Moynihan Letters. It speaks of the hunger of young people – of all people – for the meat of sound doctrine, the doctrine that gives […]
Read More An Italian Girl’s Appeal to the Bishops
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