What good is it to me if Mary gave birth to the Son of God 1400 years ago and I do not give birth to the Son of God in my own person and...

I heard an advertisement refer to Black Friday this year as “Thanksgetting.” I enjoy wordplay, but this one makes me shudder at the...

I recently discovered that in the final fifteen years of his life, Leo Tolstoy was focused on collecting wisdom quotations and writing...

This Living the Winged Life is delayed a bit because I took a trip to Lebanon for eleven days, and the weeks before and after a trip were...

One of the songs on James Taylor’s first album of original material in thirteen years contains the following lyric: Thin, thin, the...

I heard the first cicada of summer the other evening as I sat on the porch and watched the sky change hues every few minutes as the day...

In his recent book The Road to Character, David Brooks writes that “...the external drama up the ladder of success is important, but the...

Over thirty years ago, a priest friend, Jim Bacik, offered to be my spiritual director for a week-long retreat on prayer. I agreed to...

There’s an interesting finding in research on psychotherapy. When hundreds of different approaches to helping people change are put to...

A few winters ago I started embracing winter by bundling up and going out onto the front porch to watch the sunset as often as I could...