About David Wester

David Wester is a professor and research scientist with the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. His essays have appeared in The Catholic Leader, Crisis Magazine, and Homiletic & Pastoral Review.

Salvation and Sufficiency: A Lesson from Statistics

By |2023-09-27T17:51:42-05:00September 27th, 2023|Categories: Christianity, Heaven, Religion, Romano Guardini, Science, Theology, Timeless Essays|

In the world of statistics, sufficiency plays an important role in estimation. But what about sufficiency in other aspects of our lives? What about God? What about my eternal destiny? What is sufficient, here and now, to know all that I can know about my purpose in this world and my fate when my time here [...]

“The Very First Thing”

By |2024-01-28T07:53:01-06:00September 26th, 2021|Categories: Christianity, Poetry, St. Thomas Aquinas|

The Very First Thing (S.T. I, q1, a1) The Angelic Doctor began with it. Hundreds followed, yes; but first, this question. For us, though? Now? Oh, it’s not even fit To consider—at best, a digression. He called it philosophical science. His first videtur is our modern creed. We shout it loud in angry defiance: “Of [...]

“Cor Ad Cor Loquitur”

By |2019-11-07T09:38:57-06:00November 5th, 2019|Categories: Family, Imagination, Poetry|

GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDSON A MOMENT TOGETHER They shared a language all their own, unspoken. He, twenty-two years young, and never a word: His world, a silence, ever still, unbroken. Yet she, ninety-four, oh, she had always heard. […]

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