Once a month, I visit a friend who lives about an hour away. Bob is always eager to see visitors. He is, in a manner of speaking, homebound, living in a 10-by-13 foot...
Recently, I led a retreat at Pecos Abbey in New Mexico with Glandion Carney. Both Glandion and I are members of the Renovaré Ministry Team, a Christian Renewal Movement that leads retreats and...
When a stranger spit on me because my skin color was different from hers, I wondered how anyone could hate another person just because of pigment differences. ...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ...
And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him...
On July the fourth, 1939, Lou Gehrig stood before 60,000 fans in Yankee Stadium to bid farewell to the game he loved. Two years later, he died of the disease that now bears his name. Every...
“Life is difficult.” With those three words, Scott Peck launched what soon became a publishing phenomenon—The Road Less Traveled, which remained on...
For me, one of the most powerful insights into the mind and heart of a true hero is in an almost offhand remark of St. Paul’s. He writes from prison in Rome to...
A Simple Man, A Simple Woman ...
One hundred days: 800,000 people dead. ...
In journaling, maintain the perspective that its value is in the process, not the end product. We journal out of faith. We...
Dee Mitchell was all about law school. In our undergraduate years, she was the front-row student in freshman geography with all the right answers. In campus government, she was the senator who...
Words are sneaky creatures that don’t carry the proper load of meaning unless we choose them carefully. One youngster wrote in a church school: “St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached...
I ran up past the narrow wooden steps that led to her back door; my hand brushed the old railing. The door was slightly ajar, as always. I pushed a little further inside...
As a young, short, and skinny athlete, Anthony "Spud" Webb was never an early pick. He was the guy overlooked and underestimated in junior high, high school, even junior college. What would you...
The American Puritans were a hardy folk. When first set ashore on this continent, they found no Holiday Inns, no brightly lit BP gas marts. Fast food was as unheard of as indoor...
Here is an unforgettable integrity sentence from St. Paul: “We always give thanks to God for all of you and mention you in our prayers, constantly remembering before our God and Father your...
Last week I picked up a copy of Time magazine, hardly worth anything because it was a year and a half old, and I noticed the cover story on anxiety. They got that...
Somewhere around seventh grade, my boy scout troop was gearing up for the annual pinewood derby race: a contest where scouts whittle down a small rectangular block of pine into polished cars that...
A few days before I was scheduled for jury duty, I slipped in the shower and broke two toes. I called the courthouse to tell my sad story but couldn’t get through. An...
