(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This is the central question for anyone trying to understand the solemnity of Christ’s body and blood. But trying to answer it unwisely can soon get silly. “Am I eating…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) For more than a half-century now, this Sunday’s gospel reading has appeared in stadiums across the U.S. Posted on placards as simply, “John 3:16,”curious fans looked it up to discover:…
(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…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) During the Fridays of Lent leading up to Easter, the priests of our parish did their best NOT to imitate the way Jesus’ apostles reacted to the news they received…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) I’m reading a great business book that has equally valuable life lessons. The book is “Leadership for Engineers,” by Mike Kotecki (whom I got to know when I interviewed him…
This Sunday’s readings are all about selecting, raising and protecting prize-winning sheep. It’s both an art and a science. Protection is key, because sheep are easily lost or stolen. So why not just keep sheep in their pens, away from…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) I love little movies that reveal themselves as parables. “Sweetwater” is such a film. It’s the tale of how Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton changed the world of the National Basketball Association…