Essays & Thoughts

These are various essays, thoughts, notes and meditations, mostly about metaphysical ideas and considerations. Call them what you will, and take them for what you think they are worth.

Most of these thoughts are written down for my Protestant, Evangelical, and Charismatic Christian friends, who seem to find it difficult to understand why one would belong to a Catholic or Liturgical Church at all. A few are written down for my Catholic and Episcopal friends who cannot see any validity in the Protestant community. They all need to dial it back a bit -- in some cases a lot -- and ask what it means to be Christian, which is not an affiliation, but a state of the Spirit -- their Spirit. That goes too for all people who were made by God (i.e. all people), whatever their religion or spirituality, and cannot grasp that all other people were made by God and are on their journey to find and fulfill their raison d'être too.

─ Mark Fairchild 12/19/25, 09:52:40 PM