Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Friday, Jan. 30, 2026
The Observer

Opinion



ChristTheTeacherSketch.jpg

Christ the teacher

·

“It must be significant that the only picture the gospels paint for us in Christ’s boyhood is that of Christ the Teacher.”


Get stories like this in your inbox
Subscribe










dumbphone.jpg

Dumb phones and spirituality

·

“Living in the silence and boredom in the absence of our smartphones will help us, first, wake up to the fact that we are sinking in quicksand, that we run our race in vain.”



flynn_exams_web.jpg

The masculine urge to ... part 4

·

“The masculine urge to drop out of Notre Dame and become armed security for an illegal mining operation somewhere in Africa has been one of my most recent intrusive masculine thoughts.”