Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Religion

Christmas Day 2010

As I have in years past, tonight I ponder the mysteries of our faith – as embodied in the annual Christmas Day editorial of the Wall Street Journal: Then might it come to pass that darkness would settle again over the lands and there would be a burning of books and men would think only [...]

A priest in Boston shows us how to die

The Boston Globe highlights the life and death of a priest who gave us an amazing lesson on how to die with grace: “Under my promise to always tell you the truth, I have discontinued chemo and other treatments,’’ he wrote, adding, “I’m beyond the place where chemo can help me. I have come home [...]

Christmas 2008

From The Wall Street Journal’s Annual Christmas Editorial: So the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe salvation lay with the leaders. But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the [...]