by Micah Murphy | May 24, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
The hardest day in our family’s life was May 26, 2020, when we lost our Margaret Clare. At the height of the pandemic, the world already in the midst of terrible upheaval, we went to the hospital expecting a normal delivery as we’d had 5 times before. From the hopeful...
by Micah Murphy | May 20, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Virtual reality: the dream of a every 90s kid now finally accessible to the masses. A couple years ago, a colleague of mine — a major gamer with the RAM to prove it — introduced me to the world of VR on his Oculus Rift (the big brother of the Oculus Quest 2). So...
by Micah Murphy | May 19, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Some weeks ago, my attention was snagged by a title over at ScreenRant, Star Wars Hints at the True Purpose of Force Ghosts, which discussed why the phenomenon seemed only available to the Jedi and not the Sith. As I read with interest, these words stuck with me: “The...
by Micah Murphy | Apr 30, 2021 | Catholicism, Comics, Culture, Fanmail Friday, Geek, Pontifications (Blog), Public, Spirituality, Thaddeus, Theology
FAQ: Whose Geekdom is It, Anyway? Among those TGC fans for whom a simple pun must answer to the scrutinies of rational thought, many have asked: “What is the geekdom? Whose geekdom is it?” The answer is simply “all of it.” Yet it strikes me that this response...
by Micah Murphy | Apr 29, 2021 | Comics, Gwen, Lejeune, Pontifications (Blog), Public, Social Commentary, Theology
A century ago, if you had asked the random person on the street whether a man who occasionally referenced his rosary or was said by his representative to attend Mass “most Sundays” was “very Catholic,” you’d have been laughed at. After all, didn’t Irish-Americans come...
by Micah Murphy | Apr 26, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Trigger warning: child loss. Eleven months ago today, my family suffered the unspeakable tragedy of losing our 6th child, Margaret, to Down Syndrome. What we expected to be the joyous birth of — by all accounts — our healthy baby girl was in an instant turned into the...
