Growing Bolder Community

Growing up in a very small town of about 800 people, your religion was part of your profile. Mine happened to be Catholic – and still is. However, a few years ago, I began to ask a lot of questions. Being a catechist since the age of sixteen, a liturgy committee member for five years, and so on; you would have thought that I knew what my ‘role’ was. Call it an early onset of a midlife...

Remember when there used to be gas stations at every intersection? Today, they’ve been replaced by pharmacies. A government study showed more than 40 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug and the number continues to rise. Does that mean 40 percent of us are sick? And if we’re taking all these medicines, wouldn’t you think we’d all be healthier?...

Note: The following was a semi-personal Email that I wrote to a dozen of my former classmates...