Paris: How Faith Helps To Cope

Readers who don’t know me can tell by my picture at www.skepticfaith.blogspot.com, as well as by what I write, that I’m no spring chicken. Although I’m blessed with good health ...

What Good Is Faith That Doesn’t Challenge Us?

The Catholic Church, to which I belong, has just finished a meeting of church leaders in Rome called the Synod on the Family. It started on Oct. 4 and finished ...

Lessons from a Baseball Team

Many of you may not be sports fans, but this post is not about sports. It’s not even about my favorite baseball team, the Kansas City Royals, who – even ...

Cramming Religion Down Your Throat

Back in 1983, Joseph Girzone, a Carmelite priest, wrote his first book. It was self-published and his advertising was by word-of-mouth, but the book became wildly popular and was eventually ...

What Its Like to Be Us

I grew up in a loving family but we never said we loved each other and rarely showed it physically. That all changed for our family, and I believe for many families, ...

God as Magician

I traveled to Europe as a young seminary student and had my first encounters with non-believers. They awakened a sense of the fragility of my faith with which I have ...