One thing I miss about Texas. Virginia just doesn't have the weather patterns to create the spectacular, window-pain-rattling thunderstorms that I enjoy from indoors at home. Tonight we are having a good thunderstorm…

St. Augustine* wrote, “I believe in order to understand.” I agree with this statement—I love how it combines faith and reason in one inseparable unit. Thomas Aquinas wrote on the faculties of intellect and choice also,…