A Thanksgiving Memory of a Near Tragedy
Back when our daughter, Maureen, was almost two, I ran over her with my car. I was parked in our driveway and was leaving to go somewhere – I don’t ...
Aging and Other Unmentionables
My Dad, Leo “Pat” Carney, died in 1995 at the age of 94. A native of Emmetsburg, Ia. – named after Irish patriot Robert Emmet and once a magnet for ...
Luther: The World is the World
Growing up Catholic, I was not a fan of Martin Luther or the Reformation. Reformers attacked my beloved church and removed millions of people from the Kingdom of God as I imagined ...
Our Place in the Universe
I’ll bet as you go about your daily chores, you think about how the universe is expanding and how it affects you, right? No? Well, Tom Siegfried, writing in Science ...
An “Aha” Moment
You know how you can have an experience that you’ve had many times before, that has become almost routine, and then, out-of-the-blue, it brings a new insight? I’ve had that ...
How to Grow Faith
Even with 20 years of formal Catholic education, I’ve struggled with faith most of my adult life. Does God exist? Was Jesus really God? Am I fooling myself about God, ...