Parables

I've been writing all sorts of things today. These two posts are just two of the many. Why am I so writer happy today, you might ask? We...

I recently over-heard a conversation between my younger brother and our sister-in-law. A few weekends ago, my younger brother who goes to co...

There has been quite a lot of excitement going on around the Seminary with respect to a documentary and a movie that has just recently come ...

Recently, over the past year, I’ve been periodically considering my friendship patterns. Now again, I am considering them, because my sister...

During the time when David was fleeing from Saul for his life, he had men, warriors, which joined him by the hundreds. He was always at risk...

Some emotions come over people instantly. Like envy or sudden elation. Other emotions come more slowly. They wash in as slowly as a tide. De...

When I was growing up on the farm, I noticed my dad had a lot to say, while he worked. And work hard, he did. He had bought and old farm wit...

On Saturday I went home to attend the funeral of a woman who died at the age of 89. She was roughly my age when she and her husband became o...

Hypothesis: One of the most important functional purposes of community is to connect the individual to eternity both future and past through...

I found it interesting that the symbols in Narnia, especially the symbols in relation to evil and the kingdom of the white witch were the sa...

Only the richest people in the world have the luxury (money) of putting the bite into the bark of what one might consider personal choice an...

“But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relati...

A year ago I began renting part of my house to a family recently immigrated to the U.S. Their English was sparse and my Spanish was limited....

The conquest of Mexico occurred from 1519-22. Two lay Franciscans of Belgium accompanied Cortez in 1519. In 1524 twelve more Franciscans, ar...

In the absence of any objectifiable criteria of right and wrong, good or evil, the self and its feelings become our only moral guide….But wh...

Do not answer fools according to their folly, or you will be a fool yourself. Answer fools according to their folly, or they will be wise in...

Misperception #1: Brothers are brothers, no? There was an Amish guy who had had enough of the tensions and hardships of Amish life. So he an...

If you ask dominant culture America, “How are you today?” The correct response is, “Fine.” If you ask a Latino “Como estas hoy?” The respons...

Recently, I’ve been really depressed—more than usual. There are quite a number of reasons for this. For one, it is becoming increasingly obv...

All in a day's work.