Cleaving to a Vengeful God
Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now? Jane An excellent question, you might say, ...
Called to Show Up
Patrick Reardon, an author who regularly contributes to the National Catholic Reporter, wrote a column recently entitled, “God Calls Us to Show Up, Be Present.” The title intrigued me, and ...
Lesson from a Spotted Gecko
My wife, Amparo, and I are visiting her native country of Colombia, staying the month in the peaceful, mountainous, semi-tropical town of Barichara. Already, we’ve gotten into the rhythm of ...
Is This All There Is?
In a visit last year to Dromore in County Tyrone, Ireland, my wife, Amparo, and I stayed in the ancestral home of the family of my great-grandfather. It’s a lovely ...
When Family Members Lose Faith
A recent story in USA Today says Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ family was reportedly upset by his comments about religion. In an interview, Rodgers said religion was a ...
What’s So Great about Being Poor?
The people with whom I worked as a priest in the altiplano of Bolivia in the 1970s were 98 percent indigenous. Subsistence farmers, they grew mostly potatoes, plus some quinoa ...