Consolation, Desolation, and Hope: Learning From Christ’s Passion
My good friend and Jesuit priest Fr. Kevin Spinale emailed me on Mardi Gras to check in on how I was doing: “Pax. I hope…
My good friend and Jesuit priest Fr. Kevin Spinale emailed me on Mardi Gras to check in on how I was doing: “Pax. I hope…
As my infant son struggled with a difficult medical condition over the last few years, I found myself in the midst of caregiving like I…
The problem with personal grief is that you can’t prepare for it. About 10 years ago, both of my parents passed away — my dad…
When I was 15 years old, my father took my cousin and me on a deep-sea fishing trip. The captain of the 60-foot-long charter boat…
I grew up outside of church and only mildly conscious of God. When I graduated from high school, I moved from the west, where I…
I had never so much understood the waiting of Advent until the due date for my baby boy started rapidly approaching. My belly was huge;…
Actor Ed Asner said, “Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.” He couldn’t have been more correct! The absolute best, most joy-filled thing…
I never fully understood Mary when I was growing up. As a cradle Catholic, I memorized the “Hail Mary” by the age of 6, and…
Question: I’m an adult reading the Bible for the first time. The Old Testament contains a lot of violence, including the deaths of women and…
My young daughter is riding out the wet and rather depressing days partly by playing some entrancing video games. Despite my occasional hand-wringing and guilty…