(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…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The King David whom Peter recalls as the ancient patriarch of his people in this Sunday’s first reading (Acts 2:14, 22-33) seems a far cry from the King whom Peter…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Jesus’ favorite disciple doesn’t give us a very flattering image of fellow disciple Thomas Didymus. Sunday’s excerpt from John’s gospel (Jn 20:19-31) details how Thomas won his nickname “Doubting Thomas.” …
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Easter Sunday Peter recalls that he and the other apostles witnessed all of their Master’s miracles—except for his final one: rising from the dead. This was the miracle Jesus…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In Matthew’s account of the Passion we read this Sunday (Mt 26:14—27:66), Jesus says to the people who would help him fulfill his mission to die for humanity’s life, in…