You are the hero in the Hero Story The Iliad and The Odyssey, Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Idylls of the King. The hero...

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Valentine’s Day. The anniversary of the day we buried my oldest son....

Wonder. Awe. Perhaps having a sense of wonder and awe is what Jesus meant when he said we must become as children to enter the Kingdom of...

Consistently Inconsistent With the empowering aid of God’s Spirit, we aim to be consistent in prayer, to consistently love, be...

Manichaeanism was a Gnostic-like religion in the third century of the common era. It was based on the teachings of Mani (216-274 AD) and...

I came to faith in Christ when I was by myself. God revealed himself to me in a profound mystical experience. I knew God was love and...

I once worked with a guy who, in response to anyone’s morning greeting, replied, “Same old routine.” Like gentle sleeping Rosamond,[1] we...

Connect. Know. Love. Cherish. We long for connectedness. We long to love and be loved. We were created by love to love and be loved. We...

The three of us work in a nondescript suburban department store. Manager, stock-boy, and human resource guy. I’m the HR dude. The manager...

Our sexuality is an expression of the innate desire, the longing we all have to connect with God, others, our deepest selves, and...

“This is the end–for me the beginning of life.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s last words before he was hanged in the Nazi concentration camp of...

Trivia bubbles to the surface in the senile. For all of us, that which was too difficult to understand at the time it happened stays...

Men over 65 have the highest rate of suicide in America.[1] Why? Lack of purpose in retirement, loneliness, lack of independence, worry...

Shadow Work We all have a shadow side. It’s not necessarily bad; it’s just hidden. The shadow side consists of those parts of ourselves...

Eighty-foot-long King of the Seas , sperm-whale, Physeter macrocephalus Must live in the depths, diving over 7,000 feet, Doing battle...

During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced a great resignation. Unemployment was at an all-time low but people...

Jesus bids us follow. Much of what it means to follow Jesus applies across the board to every apprentice of Christ – all of us are called...

At times, it seems like a fairy tale. Peace on earth. All things made new. Thy Kingdom come. The meek inheriting the earth. The last...

Wandering loner Broken by Life Pharmaceutically numbed Descendant of slaves Chibuike’s mistake was speaking out Against the regime, which...

Our broken world needs well-integrated, psychologically healthy people – people, in other words, who are kind, tolerant, and nice. We...