(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.…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Last week we talked about first responders who sacrifice their lives in service. For that they receive humanity’s undying adulation. But there are some who wish to achieve such glory…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) As someone who has never served in the armed forces, or as any kind of first-responder for that matter, I always feel an obligation to thank such people for their…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Having “skin in the game” is a cliché with seemingly untraceable roots. Some credit Warren Buffett with it for his description of how CEOs of companies invest their own money…