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November 1, 2024
Purgatory is arguably the most misunderstood teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman...
September 19, 2024
While at a COR (Christ in Others) retreat with my late wife, I briefly met a paraplegic on a...
September 1, 2024
In the late 1990’s, I travelled to Mumbai, India on a sales process consulting gig for Microsoft....
August 15, 2024
Is true happiness eluding you? By true happiness, I mean a permanent happiness, independent of...
August 1, 2024
What is your position on the meaning of life. Have you decided that life has no meaning – “we...
July 15, 2024
Are you put off by the Roman Catholic Church’s insistence that you continually sin? Talk about...
July 1, 2024
As a flaming atheist in the 1960’s, I was disgusted by what I was learning about the Roman...
June 15, 2024
Are prayers answered? For most of my life, my answer was, “No!”. For many of my friends, their...
June 1, 2024
Two weeks less a day, prior to this writing, Christians of most denominations celebrated...
May 15, 2024
Would you agree with me that, as far as we know, no one has seen the face of our creator nor...
May 1, 2024
Towards the end of the fourth century, St. Augustine wrote, “You have made us for Yourself, and...
April 15, 2024
In his epic poem, The Hound of Heaven, Francis Thompson portrays God as a hound, relentlessly...
April 1, 2024
Is there any doubt that the world is a mess? Barely one night goes by that the evening news...
March 15, 2024
During the 2024 Lenten season, I took the sacrament of reconciliation during a retreat. The...
March 1, 2024
In Are Our Most Important Questions Unanswerable?, we concluded that answers based on reasoning...
February 15, 2024
In our last post, we pursued whether the question, “Why does a loving God expose us to suffering?...
January 15, 2024
Until recently, I was convinced that anyone expecting to receive something for which they prayed...
January 1, 2024
Once upon a time, a beautiful ostrich was born. Well, it was beautiful to its mother anyway....
December 15, 2023
If you’ve checked out my book, Discovering Life’s Purpose, or this blog, you know I feel...
December 1, 2023
In my November 15 post – All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day – we questioned why there was no...