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June 15, 2025

Heavenly Father’s Day on Trinity Sunday

Today doubles as Father’s Day and Trinity Sunday. Why not triple it to make it...

April 2025

April 18, 2025

Easter Triduum: Obey Your Thirst—for God

This post reflects on Jesus’ obedient thirst for God and our eternal wellbeing that led...

April 13, 2025

Holy Week Is Humble Week: “Beware of Becoming Caesarified”

Jesus' Approach to Power Holy Week is Humble Week. We learn from Jesus' approach to...

March 2025

March 29, 2025

Excavating the Person in a Throwaway Culture

This post reflects upon the importance of "excavating" the person in a throwaway culture. What...

January 2025

January 20, 2025

Inauguration Day, MLK, & America’s Golden Age

Inauguration Day: America's Golden Age? President Trump claimed today that the "golden age of America...

December 2024

December 29, 2024

Embracing Emotions’ Full Range: From Grief to Comfort & Joy

This post focuses on the importance of embracing the full range of emotions, from misery...

December 11, 2024

“Shawshank Redemption” & Contagious Hope

Introduction This post focuses on the contagious power of hope and how it helps us...

November 2024

November 14, 2024

“Lars and the Real Girl” & the Real Church: Total Acceptance

This post reflects on the importance of being kind and accepting people whom many find...

October 2024

October 25, 2024

Jesus and The Matrix: Free Your Mind?

How Can We Free Our Minds? How can we free our minds when there is...

October 14, 2024

Reordering Time with Resilient Hope in a Disorienting World

This blog post focuses on the porous relation of time and eternity. Such re-enchantment of...

October 12, 2024

Moving from Victimization to Victorious Living

This post reflects on how we can move from enduring victimizing life circumstances to victorious...

October 10, 2024

Blast Off with Interstellar: the Cosmic Force of God’s Love 

This post reflects on the film, Interstellar, and how the God of all-powerful love promises to...

October 05, 2024

The “Dead Christ”: Jesus Assumed Our Humanity To Heal Us

This post reflects upon the ‘death of God’ and how various depictions in paint, poetry,...

September 2024

September 30, 2024

Celebrate Human Dignity through Lament in a Therapeutic Age

This post reflects on how the therapeutic often overshadows or replaces orthodox Christian spirituality in...

September 24, 2024

The Biblical Crisis & The Batman: Tragedy and Hope

This post reflects on the biblical story of humanity's crisis or tragedy involving our original...

September 17, 2024

Pay Attention: Epiphanies Appear Suddenly and Unexpectedly

Do you know what an epiphany is? An epiphany is when suddenly and unexpectedly, someone...

September 10, 2024

Prometheus Unbound: Finding Direction Home

This post reflects on the biblical story of creation and places it in the context...

September 09, 2024

Beyond Excarnation to Incarnation in Daily Life

It is one thing to believe in the incarnation. It is quite another to live...

September 02, 2024

How to Live to the Full: With Great Expectancy

I have found that approaching life with great expectations often leaves me feeling empty. In...

August 2024

August 26, 2024

Faith’s Ferment: Fostering Resilience in a Secular Age

This post reflects upon the following question: What import do the Christian community and theological...

August 25, 2024

The Book of Eli: Taking the Bible Seriously in Dystopia

This post reflects on the film, The Book of Eli, and the importance of preserving,...

July 2024

July 28, 2024

Bringing Hope Back to Life in the Valley of Dry Bones

This post on Ezekiel's apocalyptic vision of dry bones coming to life highlights how honesty...

July 14, 2024

Show Up Every Day: Patience & Perseverance Key to Success

Show Up Every Day to Realize Your Dreams We show up every day at my...

July 05, 2024

Independence Day Every Day: Choose Freely and Responsibly

This post reflects upon the importance of not taking our independence as humans for granted....

June 2024

June 16, 2024

When Superlatives Fall Short: A Father’s Day Remembrance

This post is about the importance of fostering and cherishing good, better, best, and "bestest"...

June 04, 2024

Stimulate Your Brain and Soul with Good Medicine and Music

This post is about our family journey with TBI and how important it is to...

May 2024

May 27, 2024

Memorial Day & Cultivating Your Daily Rhythm of Remembrance

This post builds on the annual rhythm of Memorial Day to consider the import of...

May 22, 2024

Pentecost Season: Ordering Your Life for Maximum Growth

This post reflects upon the import of Pentecost season for ordering your and my everyday...

May 12, 2024

A Mother’s Day Search for Secure Attachment in a Secular Age

This post pays tribute to mothers on Mother's Day and the importance of secure attachment...

May 06, 2024

Learning to Let It Go: The Fine Art of Renunciation

This entry focuses on the importance of learning to let it go and not fixate...

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