Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

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  • HEARTBREAK AND FEAR

    The irrational challenges our common humanity and goodwill daily. Fear overwhelms in the dark atmosphere of hate. We fall silent because words fail to express the depth of fear and grief that weighs on our hearts. On an evening intended… Continue reading

  • DAY OF DEFIANCE

    REPRINTED FROM THE EVORABERG INDEPENDENT A number of letters have come to the paper complaining bitterly about President Trump’s planned military parade. I have asked the Woodhull Journal to reprint Mrs. Eleanor Harrington Parker’s letter for its readership on this… Continue reading

  • THE FRIDAY JIMPLECUTE

    By Carl A. Ten Hoopen Carl A. Ten Hoopen is the political and business reporter for the Evoraberg Independent. Business News To be a successful business person is not an easy task, but it is perhaps decidedly easier when you… Continue reading

  • A PERPLEXING QUESTION

    Perhaps I have been asking the wrong question. Ben Azzi used to say: “Despise no man and consider nothing impossible for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is nothing that does not have its… Continue reading

  • A PERSONAL MESSAGE

    Sun Tzu, Sikong Shu, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde A little more than a week ago, I received an angry note telling me that I am a good writer who says nothing unless I am willing… Continue reading

  • COMPASSION AND CHANGE

    Letting in the Fresh Air COMPASSION AND CHANGE Letting in the Fresh Air Bob, an artist friend, recounted a story to me about Cardinal Loris Capovilla, Pope John XXIII’s personal secretary. Father Capovilla told Bob that moments after being elected… Continue reading

  • WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN

    PART ONE: DEFINING FASCISM Today, as I begin this essay that I envision to be written in three parts, is 24 April,  Yom HaShoah. This is Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day. We pause to remember The Night of state-sponsored persecution and… Continue reading

  • WHAT IS YOUR PASSION?

    A REMINDER OF BEAUTY I received a newsletter from a dear friend, Terrill Welch, two days ago. Terrill is an artist residing on Mayne Island, British Columbia. The newsletter contained photographs of works in progress and photographs of the shoreline… Continue reading

  • FEAR, DISSENT AND CIVIC UPRISING

    A mutual acquaintance arranged our clandestine meeting. We left the lecture hall and entered the fluorescent hallway that appeared shadowy that night. He hesitated, glancing around. Then he motioned me to follow him. We came to a narrow, corner space… Continue reading

  • THE SALT OF INDIVIDUAL ACTION:

    PART THREE: THE POSSIBILITY OF ANSWERS THE SYNAGOGUE, THE CHURCH, AND THE MOSQUE I am a proponent of ecumenical dialogue. In the past, I participated in meetings, assisted others in preparing their conferences talks, and taught in various denominational settings.… Continue reading