Sacred Meditations
Casting out Demons by Beelzebul?
Have you ever stood near someone who was speaking ill of another person—someone you knew, someone you loved—and felt that strange, sinking weight in your chest? The room itself seems...
Casting out Demons by Beelzebul?
Have you ever stood near someone who was speaking ill of another person—someone you knew, someone you loved—and felt that strange, sinking weight in your chest? The room itself seems...
The Spark that Burns the Mountain
There is a curious progression in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit that most readers pass over without a second thought. It begins when Bilbo Baggins, lost in the dark beneath the...
The Spark that Burns the Mountain
There is a curious progression in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit that most readers pass over without a second thought. It begins when Bilbo Baggins, lost in the dark beneath the...
Fighting from the Field vs. the Fortress
Have you ever stood inside an old stone castle and looked up at its walls? They rise twenty, thirty, even fifty feet high, thick enough that no medieval weapon could...
Fighting from the Field vs. the Fortress
Have you ever stood inside an old stone castle and looked up at its walls? They rise twenty, thirty, even fifty feet high, thick enough that no medieval weapon could...
When climbing gets us nowhere.
We live in a single-story house, so it took a while before my boys learned the wonder of the "staircase." It also spared Ashley and I some of the anxieties...
When climbing gets us nowhere.
We live in a single-story house, so it took a while before my boys learned the wonder of the "staircase." It also spared Ashley and I some of the anxieties...
An Invitation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Have you ever loved someone who was actively destroying themselves? A child caught in addiction. A friend bent on a path you knew would end in heartbreak. A family member...
An Invitation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Have you ever loved someone who was actively destroying themselves? A child caught in addiction. A friend bent on a path you knew would end in heartbreak. A family member...
Why do so many saints pray for suffering?
There is a moment that comes to almost everyone who reads deeply into the lives of the saints. You’re moving along, inspired by their charity, their wisdom, their courage—and then...
Why do so many saints pray for suffering?
There is a moment that comes to almost everyone who reads deeply into the lives of the saints. You’re moving along, inspired by their charity, their wisdom, their courage—and then...