Our Most Comfortable Hand-Me-Downs
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The readings for this Feast of the Holy Family help us realize that love for our own families is like a garment one grows into with the help of wisdom.…
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Peace Becomes Us. (Or is it the other way around?)
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Many think of the event that inspired our observation of Christmas as a beautiful myth—a symbolic way to establish peace on earth. Others believe in it as historic fact. But…
The God We Didn’t Know We Knew
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very…
Open Frank’s Advent Gift. It’s a Doorway.
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) If Advent is the arrival of an important person or event, people of faith—or those searching for faith—might prepare by thinking of themselves as living in one big Advent calendar.…
Our Self-Centered Circle of Love
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) It’s Advent, and children are already anticipating what they’ll get in those beautifully-wrapped Christmas boxes. But the season of advent invites all of us to adopt outside-the-box thinking when it…
Peace ON Earth is preferable to a Piece OF It
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Of all three readings for the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, one sentence commands attention. It stands out from all the sentiments regarding kingship and…
Rediscovering Hope in a Dying World
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The closer technology gets to answering humanity’s hope for immortality, the further we get from the faith that offers it to us. Paradoxically, in the process, technology’s given us many…
Freeing Ourselves from Fear’s B.S.
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) One thing that hasn’t changed in this world since Jesus walked among us is humanity’s B.S. mastery. A recent article by a business-to-business writer defines a B.S. artist as “someone…
Insuring Life on the Rock
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In late 1800s America, The Rock of Gibraltar became an iconic image for the newly formed life insurance industry. Prudential adopted it because, according to the company, “a century after…
Called to be a Profile in Courage
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Upon his 1933 Inauguration as president of the Depression-afflicted United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged the nation, saying “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Fifteen years…