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A Kingdom Rises from Our Klugedom

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Follow the news regularly and you can’t help but realize we live in an imperfect world. Imperfection, a new book by Telmo Pievani, professor of biology at the University of…

Never Underestimate a Grasshopper

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Baby Boomers can remember when TV could offer programming with messages that seemed almost scriptural. Take Kung Fu, for example. It dealt with the adventures of an exiled shaolin monk…

Rising Above Our Best-Laid Plans

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We enter the season of Advent with many plans for the holidays and many hopes for peaceful get-togethers with relatives we love and those we tolerate. But to paraphrase Scottish…

Love’s Little Things Save Our Life

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Anyone close to a member of the greatest generation has heard the lecture. How as a child they walked to and from school uphill both ways. How, during the Great…

Heroes beyond Banners

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We’re well into fall, and the Hero banners that have been hanging from our city’s light poles have been taken down for their ceremonial presentation to the families of the…

Zacchaeus in Tap Shoes

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In Christ’s day, tax collectors were to sin what prophets were to virtue. In the succeeding 2000 years, several professions have been added to both sides of that moral balance.…

Claim Your Own Holy Grail

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Zen masters, philosophers and even clergy compare their search for wisdom to a desire for “The Holy Grail.” In fact Parsifal may be one of their heroes. This is the…

Screen Your Biopic for God

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) There’s a phenomenon known to science geeks that not only helps us to see movies, but also helps us understand how God wants to view our life stories. It involves…

Saving Grace from Our Rot

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A preacher recently encouraged his congregation to adopt a spirit of service. How do you do that? Easy. Discernment. Through discernment, he explained, the Holy Spirit draws us into service…