Trying to Define Love
Years ago in Ireland, the daughter of a cousin of my grandmother had a child out-of-wedlock. I heard this from my brother, a priest, who said the girl’s family took ...
How We View “Church”
An itinerant preacher is in a small house, packed with people who are transfixed listening to his experience of God as loving Father. It contradicts much of what the listeners ...
What Love Requires
Since my college days, I’ve been a fan of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. For those of you not familiar with him, Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who resisted the ...
Noise!
I was recently the recipient of a birthday gift – to my wife, Amparo. That is, she received the gift of an overnight stay at a nice, Colorado hotel and ...
Still Throwing Stones?
Woman was made to be man’s helper, according to the Book of Genesis. But instead of helping, she gave him forbidden fruit to eat, prompting God to kick them both ...
Do We See Compassion as a Weakness?
I’m a volunteer at the local office of a non-profit charitable organization. There, we often work with a couple of police officers whose job it is to help homeless people. ...