In a world where most entertainment and humor have become coarsened, it’s nice to know that not all humor is base. The principle of intelligent humor is one of our topics here at Sacred Windows, and thankfully, there is much of it out there, even if we sometimes have to go looking for it. [...]
A train station isn’t exactly the kind of place you would be expected to slow down and do some serious art appreciation. But if you miss the two awesome sculptures in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, you’ll be worse off than if you had missed your train. These sculptures will – pardon the railroad pun [...]
We can rarely call anything perfect in this world, but if there is such a thing as a perfect horse, it has to be the Akhal-Teke breed from Turkmenistan. One look at the beauty of this breed should be enough to convince anyone of that fact. It is in every way one of God’s [...]
Mega country star Miranda Lambert is one of those feisty blonde bombshells who bursts onto the country music scene every so often and takes it by storm. She has earned a reputation as a take-no-prisoners femme fatale toward all those lyin’ and cheatin’ losers of country music legend. (If you doubt me, just watch [...]
The sense of sight. The sense of hearing. The senses of taste, smell, and touch. What would we do without these gifts? How would we know anything about the world? The point is: we wouldn’t. The senses are our gateways to the world and we usually take these raw endowments of the human person [...]
On a whirlwind trip to Europe after graduation from college, a friend of mine introduced me to a Spanish kid named Tico. I asked why his friends called him Tico, and he said – completely deadpan – that he started using a nickname after the third time he got beaten up for his real [...]
Dreams are not always strange, disconnected experiences. Sometimes they are unified to the point of producing extraordinary blessings. In fact, one of the wonders of modern science came through a dream. It’s called the Periodic Table of Elements, the fascinating chart that explains the way the microscopic building blocks of our physical world all [...]
The world contains layers upon layers of beauty. But do we have eyes to see all there is to see? Sight is the physical sense. Seeing is the spiritual sense. The difference became evident to me recently when I looked up from my reading at a pen on my desk and noticed that it [...]
By Maurice Williams and Peter Darcy It is good to be reminded now and then of what an amazing and beautiful world we live in. For example, if you’ve ever seen the Grand Canyon and thought it was impressive, you would be even more amazed at the monster trench deep in the Pacific Ocean [...]
By Patrick Giroux France’s most celebrated martyr, Joan of Arc, was captured at the gates of the city of Compiègne in northern France in 1431. The stark history of martyrdom would repeat itself more than 350 years later in that same town, except this time it was an entire convent of nuns who would [...]