W. L. Patenaude

12/09/2023

11/24/2023

Grateful this Thanksgiving weekend to have been interviewed by Madeline Shepley for her inciteful podcast about faith and reason. Check it out and hear a little about my take on the natural bridge between , , and . Not to mention , , and .

In this episode, Madeline chats with Bill Patenaude, a retired mechanical engineer who used to work for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. During their conversation, they discuss his bachelors degree at the University of Rhod...

11/18/2023

Happy to have been interviewed by Colleen Jurkiewicz, along with great David Cloutier, for this latest eco-story at Americ Magazine.

The C.E.C. demonstrates a profound, organic Catholicism that places people within "the wholeness of creation" and asks them "to look and feel and touch and know it."

11/12/2023

My latest at Catholic365: Thanks to one Greek word in the New Testament, we learn that love in the Christian sense is the love of heaven.

With just a little understanding of a Greek word used in the New Testament, we can see that when Christians speak of love, we mean the love of heaven.

11/04/2023

My latest at Catholic365, featuring everyone’s favorite, Benedict XVI.

The news today is of darkness, war, division, and despair. What's needed more than ever is witnessing to the Good News of authentic, sacrificial love--the love the Cross, which makes all things new.

10/19/2023

My latest at Catholic365.

What two consecutive conversion stories in The Acts of the Apostles--that of the Ethiopian Eu**ch and Paul--can teach us about our own roles in baptizing all nations.

03/03/2023

Hmmmm. Someone ought to write a book about this. Maybe a sci-fi murder mystery?

Religious leaders are increasingly wading into the conversation around the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Their message? Proceed with caution.

12/27/2022

A Printer’s Choice received a nice Amazon review for Christmas:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Best SciFi Novel I've Read in a Long Time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 24, 2022

“It seems that in the last ten to 20 years scifi has focused on fantasy or military space operas. This (thankfully) falls into neither category. It is thought-provoking in the way that science fiction used to be. It's also a good murder mystery. I can't wait to read more by this author.”

10/01/2022

This weekend brought to you by the remnants of Ian.

Moisture associated with the remnants of Ian will likely produce a steady rainfall Saturday into Sunday, mainly south of the Mass Pike. Locally heavy amounts are possible along the south coast, including Cape Cod and the islands. There may be a sharp cutoff of precipitation north of the Mass Pike.

02/03/2022

Thanks to Word on Fire for the opportunity to chat , , and 'A Printer's Choice.'

Just published today…

The element of faith in sci-fi novel "A Printer's Choice" questions of what it means to be human and how we can come to build a better world.

01/30/2022

In the”Physics is Cool” department…

The mysterious particle will reveal insights into the earliest moments of the universe.