What It Means to Believe
Over coffee at a neighborhood Panera’s, my friend, Bob Claus, and I had one of our familiar conversations about faith and doubt, but this time, with Bob’s friend and former ...
When It Stops Flowing, It Stinks
In his homily about stories in the New and Old Testament readings on a recent weekend, Fr. John Brobbey, the associate pastor at St. Francis of Assisi parish in West ...
Friendship Next to Godliness?
My lifelong friend, Fr. Gerald Waris, recently paid a visit to my wife, Amparo, and me and that got me thinking about the significance of friendship. Though most people call ...
Inventing a god We Can Live With
A woman who worked in a fertility clinic was being interviewed on NPR radio. She talked about all the people she helped and how much they appreciated her work and ...
The Power of Stories
I recently visited my nephew, Mark Pfeffer, in Anchorage, AK. Trained as an architect and a developer by profession, he and his wife, Desiree, have a beautiful house on the ...
Lessons from Space
I’ve been impressed by the new pictures of outer space taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. They capture a beauty that, given the cold, barren nature of space, is ...