Your body’s immune system needs protection from all that attacks and sickens your body. But what about your resistance to spiritual attacks? How do you combat the constant assaults on your spirituality that leave you emotionally drained, confused and self-centered?…
Is It OK to Call Jesus “My Personal Lord and Savior?”
Evangelization sends all of us out into the world to meet, engage, care for, and share our faith in Jesus Christ with all. And that can mean questions. Some that come with a lot of baggage and background. On a few occasions…
Reflecting on All Souls Day
Readings for November 2, 2014: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls) I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection as I watched the undertakers carry…
The Saints Go Marching In
Today is the Feast of All Saints, a celebration which dates back to the early years of the Church. It is a celebration of those saints and martyrs we know to be in heaven. It is also a remembrance of…
All Saints Day Means Holiness is For All!
Readings for November 1, 2014: Solemnity of All Saints At age 16, I thought that aspiring to holiness was out of the question. If you really wanted to be holy, I thought, you had to be a priest, nun, or…
Policy vs. Doctrine
The 2014 Synod has come to a close and more has been made of it in the media than most synods in recent history. Going into the synod, we knew that since the topic related to all things regarding the…
The Luckiest Man in the Bible
In our all too self-centered society, the attraction of “personal drama” and “woe is me” thinking is pervasive. Every public figure and celeb has some mega-emotional story of the most recent tragedy in their lives that is all important and…
What Questions Get Answered?
I just read Holly Ordway’s conversion story, Not God’s Type: An Atheist Lays Down Her Arms and was fascinated by it. I posted a review here, but in this post I’d like to focus on what I learned in terms…
The Radical Rabbi and the Great Commandment
Readings for October 26, 2014: 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time They are at it again. In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus’ opponents enlist a lawyer to do what lawyers do best- ask a question that puts a person on the hot…
What’s Your Golden Calf?
“And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders’ work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.” Exodus 32:4…