Category: Christianity

As I was driving home from work today, I noticed the man in the car next to me singing. Sometimes people sing in their cars, especially while driving rush hour traffic. It is a good way to dissipate the frustration…

Only fifteen days left in our Lenten observance. This need to write something each night (can’t write in the morning…I leave for work at 6 am), has been good for me. Though, trying to be erudite when you are tired…

One of the hardest things in life to deal with is disappointment, such as when expectations go unmet or people unexpectedly “throw you under the bus” as the current aphorism goes. When approval, for whatever reason, is withdrawn, it bites…

I read that phrase in an article by John Mark Reynolds, “Who’s There?”. The article discusses the critical question asked throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Mark argues that in the play, “Shakespeare has no time for the comforting cowardice of atheism; the universe…

Today’s Gospel was on the Prodigal Son. It is a beloved story to all Christians and one of the most known of Jesus’ parables to those outside the faith. Most of the time we focus on the younger prodigal, his…

Today is a unique day during the Lenten observance. It is the feast day of one of the most beloved saints of all time: Patrick of Ireland. Patrick composed one of my favorite hymns, St. Patrick’s Breastplate. This hymn is…

We cannot control what happens to us; the future is not in our hands. We can prepare for it, try to put ourselves in the best possible position to deal with it, but in the end it has how we…

We are half of the way through our journey, and I will tell you that it has been tough keeping up with the demands of posting. However, I love blogging and blogs. The Internet has given us all chances to…

The purpose of history and the work of historians is to analyze and explain the past, its meaning and implications for how we got where we are and where we are going. For example, in the United States, it is…

Yesterday I began talking about truth and its relationship to love. To be truthful eventually involves sacrifice. There will come a moment when telling the truth will cost you something. Not to belabor the pun but that is the moment…