How to “Find” God

When you fall in love, you want to think of nothing else, or no one else, but your beloved. It can be close to an obsession. If you marry, as ...

Is Self-Love Overrated?

There’s an ad appearing regularly on streaming video, and I assume on regular TV, showing an attractive young woman with beautiful, long black hair who has just used a hair ...

Faith, in a Culture of Violence

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know about the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, a religious conservative, co-founder of Turning Point USA and an influential voice in the ...

“Thy Will Be Done?”

A phrase in the “Our Father,” also called the Lord’s Prayer, has always been a problem for me. To me, this phrase expresses the aspiration that we, and everybody else, ...

Faith, Patience and Endurance

Interesting, isn’t it, how things can be going smoothly in your life, then all of a sudden, they’re not? Those things may be relatively insignificant, like getting cut off in ...

The Kingdom of Heaven???

Before moving to Colorado, my wife, Amparo, and I used to drive from Des Moines to Denver to see our daughter, Maureen, who lives in the city’s southern suburbs. Because ...