I Love My Live
Everywhere I go here in Rome – at restaurants, bars, stores – Love My Life is playing. At lunch this week I found myself tapping my feet and humming its catchy […]
Author Archives: René Breuel
New Year Resolutions?
So, even though I may forget any good intention or plan, and may be tempted not to bother, God’s resolutions give me hope.
The Birth of the Old Baby
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story in the 1920s, some years ago made into a movie, about a baby who is born old. Benjamin Button was born wrinkled, with weak […]
Prosperity according to the Bible
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired, disgusted and dismayed, at a movement in contemporary Christianity called the Prosperity Gospel. You probably know that it’s misguided, that it baptizes […]
Trumpism is here to stay (and how to deal with it)
The American elections take place tomorrow. Does that mean that the polarizing populism that breeds on people’s resentment and fear, that has emerged not just in Trump’s candidacy but also […]
Why do we get married?
Why do we marry for love nowadays? The peculiarity of this now pervasive social arrangement struck me as I read a fascinating historical novel this month, Augustus, by John Williams. […]
Why is “seize the day” our universal motto?
Seize the day. Live for the moment. Be yourself. Only you can be you, only now can be now. Maxims like these populate my Facebook and Twitter feed like commercials […]
A Novelist’s Narration
From the agony of Job and the psalmists in the Bible, to the protest of the searching agnostic nowadays, we do all seem to want a more visible, more extravagant, less modern God.
Will we fly to the moon in Heaven?
It was a heated discussion. Sarah, our boys and I were driving to an uneventful afternoon at the shopping mall. Pietro and Matteo were making plans and getting excited for […]
To be a man is to help women flourish
What does it mean to be a man today? What makes a guy a guy? Muscles? Brain? An instinct for leadership? It sounds like such a simple question. Men are […]
Wondering Fair 