Beyond The Rim…

Today is the Sunday in which the Church celebrates the angel appearing to Mary and telling her she was to bear God’s Son. It is called the Feast of the Annunciation. One of my favorite paintings is of this event,…

Coming out of a Reformed view of the world in my early Christian formation, I believe that God has a plan for each of us, set within the context of his overall plan for humanity as a whole, and he…

How often do you admit you are wrong, that you have done something you need to apologize for or ask forgiveness for? For most of us, it is very seldom. However, as Christians, that process forms the central tenant of…

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 When approval, for whatever reason, is withdrawn, it bites…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…