text “We are here! We are on fire!” On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s first inauguration as…
text "What a friend we have in Jesus." Some years ago, when I was teaching in Dubuque, Iowa, I was invited to a Hymn…
text "As we look back at those who have gone before us, what do we find?" n you take." It was two days before Christmas eve that I reached up to the top shelf in the…
text "As we look back at those who have gone before us, what do we find?" n you take." It was two days before Christmas eve that I reached up to the top shelf in the…
text "Always give more than you take." Reading the daily obituaries always gives me a new lease on life. A firm…
text "Always give more than you take." Reading the daily obituaries always gives me a new lease on life. A firm…
text If you want the unlikeliest of answers, then listen to the unexpected questions. In the words of the poet Mary Oliver, "Poetry is a life-giving force. For…
text If you want the unlikeliest of answers, then listen to the unexpected questions. In the words of the poet Mary Oliver, "Poetry is a life-giving force. For…
text "Lift up your eyes Upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream." The inevitable synchronicity of the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and…
text "Lift up your eyes Upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream." The inevitable synchronicity of the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and…
text "One world at a time." Henry David Thoreau, the great American naturalist, poet and transcendentalist…
text "One world at a time." Henry David Thoreau, the great American naturalist, poet and transcendentalist…
text "I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten." Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
text "I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten." Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
text "Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?" The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
text "Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?" The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
text "Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one; and she must put up with me... The sixteenth century Christian humanist and scholar Erasmus (died 1536) had,…
text "Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one; and she must put up with me... The sixteenth century Christian humanist and scholar Erasmus (died 1536) had,…
text "Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus, Deus Aderit."              …
text "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." The final leg of the journey would take me through O'Hare Airport in Chicago…
text "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." The final leg of the journey would take me through O'Hare Airport in Chicago…
text "Do you love me?" "I suppose I do" Often, when I hear the question, "Do you love me?" I think of a beautiful…
text "Do you love me?" "I suppose I do" Often, when I hear the question, "Do you love me?" I think of a beautiful…
text "Heads I win, tails you lose." The marble games we played on the parking lot of Incarnation school were…
text "Heads I win, tails you lose." The marble games we played on the parking lot of Incarnation school were…
