(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Resurrection” is another word for change, particularly positive change—which too often we tend to recognize only in the long run, once we look back at the lives we’ve lived. In…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We moderns share the same challenge Christ’s disciples faced after watching their Master rise and disappear from sight. What now? Where do we go from here? If we believe ascension…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A Psychology Today article says God-believers and non-believers use their brains differently. Non-believers apparently use higher-order brain networks. For them, seeing is believing, and believing is supported through reasoning. This…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) I took the family to see “Big George Foreman,” a biopic about this man’s boxing career. By the end it tells us about more than that. There are good lessons…
Throughout the Easter liturgies, we’ve meditated on how God died as one of us so we could live in Him. Humanity has always yearned for union with His spirit, but nobody expressed that yearning more soulfully than Jesus’ earthly ancestor,…
In the movie version of “The King and I,” The king of Siam (played by Yul Brynner) decides to stage his subjects’ version of the American classic novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” He wants to convince visiting Western diplomats that his…
On this the second week of Lent, we receive an important reminder to help us stay focused on why this is such an important time in the Church year. Yes, we fast, but this is for renovation, not deprivation. The…