Me or Us?
I recall the period after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when Americans of every stripe came together in grief and determination. It was encouraging to experience this rare occurrence ...
Ceaseless Waiting
Few saints are better known than St. Augustine, who lived in the fourth century. He was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings greatly influenced the development ...
Shared Moral Blindness
I recently read “1776” by David McCullough, the history of the American Revolution. Early on, McCullough describes the supreme commander of the American forces, our first president, George Washington. Washington ...
Prayer: Why We Don’t Get What We Want
When I was a priest in Bolivia, living in a village on the shore of Lake Titicaca, a man came to the door saying he was part of a crew ...
Too Busy for Faith
“Rachel” is a self-proclaimed workaholic. She’s too busy to eat lunch so she skips it, saying she just “eats stress.” At night, to avoid awakening her husband, Rachel sleeps with ...
One Person’s Surrender to God
At age 25, Libby Osgood, “wearing heels and a sculpted black skirt with just a hint of pink,” stood in a room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center filled with ...