Sierra Faith

Why, at the beginning of course. The trip with Papa Virg was a trip for the ages for many reasons. I’ll be journaling on many of the family-based topics here, and if I feel like ranting on the truly more mundane topics such as Amtrak and its future existence, that will take place over at [...]

Chuck Colsen provides this disturbing information. Samples: A St. Louis public school student was ���caught��� praying over his lunch. As punishment, he was lifted from his seat, reprimanded in front of classmates, and ordered never to pray in school again. At a New Jersey Veterans��� cemetery, an honor guard member was fired for telling a [...]

Papa and I are about to check out of The Drake Hotel and head to Chicago’s Union Station to board the California Zephyr. It has been a wonderful time here in Chicago (especially The Drake). Hotel and restaurant staff have been very gracious and helpful. Looking forward to the adventure on the Zephyr. We are [...]

The cat is out of the bag! Talked with Papa Virg tonight, and he has discovered the surprise. The Amtrak ticket agent at Cincinnati Union Terminal (CUT for those In The Know) asked, “Is someone else is traveling with you from Chicago?” Papa was waiting for the Westbound Cardinal. He should be boarding about now [...]

The first sentences from Thomas Madden’s A Concise History of the Crusades sets the tone for the adventurous historical exploration and learning to follow. “Crusade” is a modern, not a medieval, word. It derives from crucesignati (“those signed by the cross”), a descriptive used occasionally after the twelfth century to refer to crusaders. This book [...]

When work consumes me. When my family seems far away. When my life seems a harried blur. And then I read the words of St. Augustine from his Confessions: And in all these things over which I range as I am consulting you I find no secure place for my soul except in you, and [...]

Dutch baby killing. Hugh Hewitt argues that Man cannot make decisions to end the lives of the innocent and helpless (what didn’t we learn from World War II?). All lives the same value, period. From C.S. Lewis’ “The Weight of Glory”: “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, [...]