Brad Bursa

The explainer for brain lateralization (i.e., the tendency of one hemisphere to specialize in certain processes) does typically runs along this line: That people are either right-brained or left-brained has been proven false. In reality, both hemispheres fire and work together throughout the thinking process. In this sense, both hemispheres are involved in the act…

A couple days ago, I was chatting with a parishioner before a talk we offered at the parish. He mentioned that ChatGPT was alive and well. He’d recently returned from a graduation tour that spanned multiple grandkids and states. He told me he heard one high school valedictory address that offered the typical niceties: we’ve…

The intimacy portrayed in the icon caused me to double take. I had never seen anything like it. I’m speaking, of course, about the piece depicted above. It’s an early Coptic Christian icon depicting Jesus and Abbot Mena. Some refer to it as “Christ and his friend.” I see that, and I see in this…

Spend any time at a Midwest parish (really any Catholic parish) and you’ll find some Garys and Debbies around. I’m talking about the parish fixtures, the small group of guys and gals who make the parish go ‘round. They volunteer to everything, run everything, sacrifice for everything. They know everyone and anticipate needs. They do…

Streaking across the sky like a meteor, a firebird in flight. A bald eagle flapping wings on an easterly flight path aimed for the rising sun. The golden globe’s rays were, at the same time, reaching out to the earth, waking land and sky, and transfiguring the eagle before my eyes. As it flew higher…