In his latest “From the Chapel” blog post, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes that the United States is more than a country; it’s a continental empire. And due to the vast numbers of nationalities and ethnicities that have settled in the various
In his latest “From the Chapel” blog post, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes about his latest vacation, camping at Petoskey State Park in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Richert shares that while many things have changed since he last visited, he
In his latest “From the Chapel” blog post, OSV publisher Scott Richert was surprised to find that people took him seriously when he said he would not read Facebook comments. In writing quick comments, as opposed to longer, more thoughtful responses, he
In his latest “From the Chapel” blog, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes: “For many years now, I have urged everyone who will listen (and many who won’t) never to read comments on articles and blog posts online. By following that advice, you
In his latest “From the Chapel” blog, OSV publisher Scott Richert writes about a recent nagging injury that has slowed his running routine after pushing himself too hard too fast. He writes: “I knew better than to do what I did. I
“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 words have something in common: They were
“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 because of some physical attribute (such as
“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 to be as blind to it as
“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 that we're in the midst of a
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 to understand those who came before us