“We consume massive quantities of words, but we receive most of them electronically, on the World Wide Web or the crawls and chyrons of our chosen cable news network. And the vast majority of those ...

“For us, community has become an abstraction: We use the term most often today to speak of groups of people who may not even know one another but who we presume share a common interest ...

“We speak of the past and the future as if they are separate realities, but the present, like the poor, we shall always have with us. And having the present always with us, we tend ...

“Even in the best of times, there's always a tension between our self-absorption, the reality that we can never fully shake the sense of being at the center of the world, and a broader recognition ...

In his latest “From the Chapel” blog, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes: “The reason to study history, and to write about it in both fiction and nonfiction, is never just to document what happened but ...

“If, for the Christian, the only legitimate purpose of any kind of writing is to express truth, where does fiction fit in? … Those who write fiction don’t enter into the process with the intention ...

OSV publisher Scott Richert writes in his latest “From the Chapel” post that “for the Christian, the only legitimate purpose of any kind of writing is to express truth. … One difference between a good ...

In his latest “From the Chapel” post, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes that “when paint is peeling, you can’t simply cover it with a fresh coat. And so you scrape and brush and sand until ...

In his latest “From the Chapel” post, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes: “Our Lord is in his tabernacle, and all is right with the world. Well, at least the first part is true. Yesterday, June ...

OSV publisher Scott Richert writes in his latest “From the Chapel” post that “Understanding the history of economics can help us recognize the limits of economic “laws”; understanding the history of medicine and virology can ...