Category: religion

  • Church exploring: St Giles

    This week, I went to the 5p mass at St Giles. The north end of Oak Park is by far the most suburban section of our village. It largely lacks multi-family housing and is far enough away from the two “L” lines that run through Oak Park that people are far enough away that the…

  • Church exploring

    I’ve decided to look around for a somewhat more satisfying faith community, so as one step in that direction, my wife and I went to mass at St Catherine of Sienna/St Lucy parish. The parish community is certainly more diverse than St Edmund’s, which is 95% white (at least). The St Catherine/St Lucy community is…

  • Mr Rogers, a model for being human

    This article, admittedly a bit old, seems to me a recipe for being human, albeit one which I very often fail to live up to. I so often want to impose my views, to argue that I’m right, instead of just being gentle and kind and leaving things at that.