A Different Conversation at Texas A&M
Ted and I were back in College Station last Thursday for the James Benjamin Department of Accounting Scholarship Recognition Banquet. We have…
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Episode III : The Bridegroom, the Body, and the Cross Mystical Marriage and Redemptive Suffering
Karen’s Voice We have met the woman. We have seen that she was not a cloistered nun. Now we have to face…
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Do You Have a Plan?
Registration, if it was going to be done in Texas, had its last ordinary day on October 5. The next question is…
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The Scalpel That Talks Back
I was thinking about the Eucharist. Then I was thinking about ChatGPT. That is the whole problem, stated before the theory. I…
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The Formed Mind and AI · Part II
What AI Gives Back I took typing in high school. That would hardly seem worth remembering except that I was a young…
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Dos cargos, un corte de fondos y un mapa que cambió
Marco Rubio ocupa dos cargos al mismo tiempo. Es secretario de Estado. Es asesor de Seguridad Nacional. El presidente Trump firmó el…
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Karen Early
Karen Early is a Catholic writer and educator with backgrounds in engineering and theology. She is the founder of Fides et Ratio, a platform devoted to thoughtful engagement with faith, culture, and the interior life.
Drawing from tradition, lived experience, and contemporary questions, her work seeks to foster clarity, charity, and intellectual honesty in the modern world.