Praying Into Thin Air
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Life is like climbing a mountain. It’s an arduous experience, but it gets us to our goal. Our REAL challenge is deciding what that goal is. Is it to reach…
The Battle to End Our Wars
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LordHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are storedHe hath loosed the fateful lightning of…
Why Do We Worship Monstrous gods?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” This quote opens the movie “Oppenheimer.” It offers…
Finding God between Life’s Ticks and Tocks
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A little movie called “The Hiding Place” was released for a limited run in the theaters last month. This stage-to-screen production of a book of the same name by Corrie…
Vengeance is Nobody’s
The Arts have plagiarized the verse “Vengeance is Mine” since it first appeared in the Bible. In cinema alone, between 1912 and 2021, it’s been used as a movie title more than a dozen times. Japanese, German, Italian, Hindi and…
“To be is to do” or “To do is to be”?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) That headline represents a debate between students of various philosophers. Who’s right? Depends. The best teachers will tell you that any of us is stronger living as a verb than…
Abbott & Costello Meet God
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) To professional comedians, one of the greatest pieces of comic material ever written is considered more than a skit. Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First” is deemed a masterpiece of…
The Struggle to Hold onto God
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sometimes it seems we don’t know how to think about God. Humanity’s default position is to act like God doesn’t exist. So when times get tough we seek whatever security…
How Our Father Plays Favorites
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed.” (Is 56:1, 6-7) Those conditions for salvation are pretty…
Win with the Hand You’re Dealt
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Sunday’s readings made me think of the Paul Newman movie, “Cool Hand Luke.” It’s the story of an anti-establishment hero sentenced to two years in a hard-labor camp for…