David Mills
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Sewickley, PA, United States
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The Wisdom of Benedict XVI
A selection of Benedict XVI's insight and wisdom, collected from writings before and after he became pope. → Read More
They Pray 'Peace, Peace,' When There is No Peace
It was the usual people doing the usual thing and intoning the usual clichés, and as usual avoiding saying anything too specific. Just before Russia invaded Ukraine, mainstream religious leaders joined in a “Faith Vigil for Peace in Ukraine.” The... → Read More
The Foundation is Love: Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Christian Calling to Nonviolent Protest
Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent resistance and protest challenges everyone, because few want to risk so much. → Read More
How Abortion Disappears Children: A Lesson From Argentina
A symbol that had represented courageous, life-risking resistance to taking unwanted people away became ... a symbol of a movement that advocates taking unwanted people away. → Read More
Did Justice Ginsberg Endorse Eugenics? Was She a Racist?
“Frankly,” said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2009, “I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” She was... → Read More
C.S. Lewis Didn't Trust the Government (To Go Away)
CS Lewis understood: Bossy people will always have a good-sounding reason for continuing to boss people around. → Read More
Dying for Jesus
Edmund Campion chose to follow Jesus knowing what would happen to him. He chose with open eyes a work that would mark him for life and make him a target. → Read More
What if the Man Were Drowning?
I’ve had this experience a few times and you feel like a target, a prize to be won, an it. The other guy looks like a predator, a shark circling you in the water. And yet. He was walking to... → Read More
Wisdom From Justice Clarence Thomas
In celebration of the new documentary on Clarence Thomas "Created Equal," we look at the ideas and philosophies of this long-serving, historic Justice. → Read More
You Stink. That's Why We Have Christmas
She wasn’t the happiest person you could meet. A Christian, but one who saw this world as a progression of sins and sorrows, and nothing to smile about. I knew this old woman when I was young. She used the... → Read More
The Professor Talked About Jesus, and Made Her Throw Up
Some people think we create the Faith as we go along based on a thin idea of Jesus. Orthodox Christianity insists that we receive it as a Divine gift. → Read More
C.S. Lewis Explains the Saints: We Need Heroes
We need someone to make us feel small. Not bad, but small. We need heroes. Giants, winners, superstars. As Christians, we need people who loved and love God more than we do. We need the saints. Much of the Christian... → Read More
How to Love Others Better Than You Do
Most of us don't love others as ourselves. Jesus said to, but we can't. Here's one way to get better at doing what Jesus said. → Read More
You’ve Got a Friend You Can’t See (Because He’s an Angel)
God gives us friends, but our earthly friends don't always help as much as they should. He also gives us an eternal friend & protector in our guardian angel → Read More
We Don't Know Much, But We Fight Anyway
A lot of Americans know next to nothing about England and the European Union, much less about Brexit, but they have firm opinions nonetheless. Baffling. → Read More
It Is Well With My Soul
I hadn’t heard “It is well with my soul” in decades, when YouTube started playing it one night as I worked. It took me back forty-some years, to my friends’ white clapboard church in the country, with its bare white... → Read More
How to Survive the World's Predators Without Becoming One Yourself
Jesus tells us to be as innocent as doves. But doves look dumb and get eaten and I don’t want to look dumb and get eaten. → Read More
God Needs You
God needs you. You who enjoy wealth beyond imagining and you who can’t find work. You who teach in an elite university and you who cleans his office at night, and you who ace his tests and you who fail... → Read More
The Book That Formed Me: My Mother Thought The Lord of the Rings Would Kill Time
His mother wanted to keep the energetic 12-year-old quiet on a family trip so she choose the fattest book she saw in the shop. The Lord of the Rings worked. → Read More
The Bible's Most Politically Incorrect Teaching (You Won't Like It)
An apologist thinks Paul's teaching on homosexuality the most un-p.c. part of the Bible. He's wrong. The most un-p.c. teaching is one none of us like. → Read More