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 ...
Should a Skeptic Pray?
As a missionary years ago among the Aymara people of Bolivia, I was struck by the popularity of a statue in the church I served. It was by far the ...
Back to Business as Usual?
The Pope is back in Rome, and everything’s back to normal. Whew! Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives can go back to attacking each other, ignoring the poor, the unborn, the ...