Brad Bursa

An analogy for the Christian life. Consider the pencil. To be honest, I never did. Until I read an obscure line in Pope Benedict XVI’s Last Testament, which says: As a young lad I wrote in pencil and then stayed with it. The pencil has an advantage in that one can erase things. If I…

If everyone could just stop complaining… My boys had pulled out the metal rod that controls our fireplace’s rotary damper. Again. When they tried to fix it on their own by shoving it back in with all their might, they managed to wedge it into the other parts and got it stuck. So I got…

On the modern movement from freedom to license. I was young. Twenty-two, to be exact. And I was teaching high school sophomores. My baby-face was unhelpful in this situation, as I looked younger than some of my students. Before the year started, I got all fired up after watching Dead Poets Society and decided I…