Changes of Heart: An Iraq War Veteran’s Faith Story
Among its best-read stories of 2018, America Magazine lists “Deployment to Iraq Changed my View of God, Country and Humankind. So Did Coming Home” by Phil Klay. Klay is a ...
Loving, and Hating, Christmas
Last year, I wrote an opinion piece entitled, “Why Christians Should Hate Christmas.” It was published in the online edition of the National Catholic Reporter and elicited a bit of ...
Some More Equal than Others?
A few months ago, a church in Des Moines displayed a big banner on its building that proclaimed, “Black Lives Matter.” It should be no surprise that in today’s politically ...
Being with the One You Love
Writing notes for this blog, I stare out the window of the retreat house at New Melleray, a Trappist monastery in northeast Iowa, at what I believe is a large ...
Is Thanksgiving for Unbelievers?
(This blog was originally published in 2014. I did some updating for 2018, but it’s mostly the same. That includes the wish that readers will have a thankful Thanksgiving.) I ...