This Labor Day weekend, the barn that stood as the monument to my family’s farm is being torn down. Built in 1870 with solid oak beams and wooden trenails, it served for generations by sheltering […]

This Labor Day weekend, the barn that stood as the monument to my family’s farm is being torn down. Built in 1870 with solid oak beams and wooden trenails, it served for generations by sheltering […]
I don’t read a lot of fiction these days. I watch a lot of fiction…shows, movies–they require so little energy and attention most of the time. The passive stance, the motionless eyes, the over-amplified dramatics of […]
Perhaps it was the juxtaposition of an exciting sporting event that around 100 million people were watching, or perhaps it was that, for the first time since Katrina, power went out in the Superdome. Here […]
Its a common theological trope during the Advent season that “everyone’s doing it wrong.” It’s Advent, not Christmas! It’s the time of waiting, the time of preparation, the time to reflect on the liturgical meaning […]
My nine month old* son doesn’t weigh too much. Twenty-one pounds at his last doctor’s appointment, which is well close to triple his birth-weight. I’ve begun to sense a hint of fatigue in my arms […]
On Christmas Eve I had the privilege of attending two Christmas services: a 4pm Evangelical Presbyterian Church service focused around children and an 8pm Roman Catholic Mass. Although the differences between the two services were […]
Perhaps the impossible might be possible with God: that in opening ourselves in prayer, we will be ready to receive that which we cannot conceive, to hold that which we cannot grasp, to love he […]
Do not worry, for he provides you with a technique for singing. Do not go seeking lyrics, as though you could spell out in words anything that will give God pleasure. Sing to him […]
I am a stay-at-home dad of two boys, a 19-month old and an almost 3-month old. This and this alone places me in the minority of couples with children. These days, it seems, being a […]
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