So Hard to Trust

Like many families during this pandemic, my wife, Amparo, and I have had many Facetime sessions with our children and grandchildren. In one recent session, our grandchild, Leo, who is ...

The World Hidden Beneath This One

In her apparently successful search for God, Author Heather King experienced “that stab of joy that hints at a world hidden within this one.” But she didn’t come to that ...

The Fresco Painter

While he was painting frescoes in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the artist James Thornhill became so excited about his fresco that he stepped back to see it better and ...

The Cost of Indifference

“Whatever,” I said in a recent telephone conversation with my daughter. “Yikes!” I thought afterward. “Did I really use that word?” Fact is, it’s hard to resist the use of ...

Where Is God in All This?

At this writing, there are 1.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide and 89,915 deaths, including 434,861 confirmed U.S. cases and 14,814 U.S. deaths. I won’t go into the economic ...

Satisfied with Your Life?

As a seminary student in my 20s, my friend, Gerald Waris, and I used part of the money we earned working in a brewery to take a summer’s-end trip to ...