It took me a little while to figure out what I liked so much about this commercial from All State. And, truthfully, I didn’t just like it, I found it peculiarly moving. I’ll put it below for you to watch and then have a bit to say about it below. What’s moving, I think, is the sense of...

Yesterday, October 4, was the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. Francis, who was born to wealth but turned his back on a life of luxury in order to serve the poor, lived from around 1181 until 1226. He started the Rule of Francis, later to be called the Order of the Franciscans, which was...