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This blog was originally published on January 25, 2021 ‘Because we are vulnerable, we can be brave.’ Josef Pieper ‘Inner healing’ tends...

Note: This blog was originally published on April 24th, 2017. ‘Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and proclaim the Kingdom of...

Note: This blog was originally published on July 22nd, 2018. I am excited about a new booklet I just wrote– ‘Becoming Good News’ –a...

‘When Lot hesitated, the angelic men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and led them safely out of the city,...

A Christian in India remarked recently to me: ‘We look to America to lead the way. Last June, most US-related companies and all...

‘I’m ‘gay’ and I want to be healed.’ These were the words I pronounced when I went for prayer after my first service at my Vineyard...

Baby Marianna should be here any day. Ania and I wait differently. She’s surprisingly patient, and I’m not. Each passing day, I make sure...

Amanda and Rich invited us into their relationship last year when they married. Today they update us on their life together. Looking...

‘What the Church needs going forward is a leader who can marry personal simplicity with a passion for converting the world to Jesus...

Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis just two years into my Catholic commitment. This began a deeply personal, disruptive, and...

Alexis circled Father William at our gathering and waited on him like an attentive wife. They looked at each other adoringly. When I...

‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’ Rediscovering Our Lost...

‘He afflicted you with hunger then fed you…’ (Deut. 8:3).   I hungered for Jesus and community and California after leaving IHOP-KC. Why...

Lent’s invitation to let go of stuff means little if we don’t invite Jesus into empty spaces.   I am trying this year to make the...

A friend wrote this reflection on the Cross, porn addiction and family, and cleaning house. It prepares me for Ash Wednesday. I hope it...

The film Conclave  dramatizes what the word means: Catholic cardinals who gather to choose a new pope.   What the film fails to convey is...

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

God is younger than all else. St. Augustine   I have a 99-year-old mother who doesn’t worry about the gap between a body that hurts and...

‘John! John! Wake up! Jesus is God’s Son! Jesus is God’s Son!’ (Carol to John on her conversion, The Way It Was )   Carol saw what others...

Tended by Jesus, chastity is fire in the fireplace: a controlled burn that heats up a cold house, eases up for tenderness, stays true to...