« Home

Aisling an Phoncáin

Brian Doyle’s Blog

A graphic poem, "Tír Bhláthanna na Gréine" (The Land of Sunflowers) (1996)

Another good start?

Welcome to my new blog! It’s said that a good start is half the work. When I was younger, I gave it a reasonably good start. But then, life happened.

Fierce Ruthfulness: A Tribute to the Notorious RBG

When the news of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death hit social media, the political ramifications of the loss were so overwhelming that I just kind of shut down. I saw what was coming, and I was afraid. I had no kind or helpful words to describe the outrage and injustice of

We are made for one another.

In 1965, the great theologian Howard Thurman published a book entitled The Luminous Darkness, expressing his reflections on the spiritual meaning of the civil rights movement and desegregation. Commenting on Brown v Board of Education 1954, he wrote: I was born four years later in December 1969. Raised in Oak

Illustration of Batman breaking a rifle and declaring, "this is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

Waiting for Batman

Comic books, movies, and even the Bible have a thing or two to teach us about America’s good-guy, gun-totin’ hero worship.

Member of

Unitarian Universalist
Society of Geneva (Illinois)

www.uusg.org

Many Paths • One Church