Painful Lessons of Healing
“Not all pain is significant.” – Scott Jurek It was a cool, rainy Friday night. Rob and I had walked back to Amy’s parent’s house so we could get the Continue Reading →
“Not all pain is significant.” – Scott Jurek It was a cool, rainy Friday night. Rob and I had walked back to Amy’s parent’s house so we could get the Continue Reading →
This past morning, Jim and I were talking in the locker room as we often do. Jim is wise gentleman in his mid-80’s whom I met over a year and Continue Reading →
“The greatest battles we fight are the ones within us.” Recently, I attended a Global Leadership Summit, where I heard Erwin McManus, cancer survivor and author of a recent book, Continue Reading →
Ever since I was a little kid, I have heard hundreds upon maybe into the thousands of homilies and talks that discussed why Jesus came to live, die, and be Continue Reading →
Recently, I published an article which posited that to more fully understand God the Father, we must also come to understand what it means to be a dad on Earth. Continue Reading →
On the southwest corner of the medical campus next to where I work, there stand four stately oaks, like sentinels watching over the land nearby. They make up much of Continue Reading →
Brandon Schafer was two years old when his family moved to 1308 South Grand Avenue, just a couple of blocks from Akin Park. Most of his formative years would be Continue Reading →
“…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20 Mass had just ended, and I stepped into the narthex. I was quickly approached Continue Reading →
The earliest people in the Great Flood. Egyptians in the Red Sea. The residents of Sodom and Gomorrah. The firstborn in Egypt. Israelites in multiple plagues. Amorites in a hailstorm. Continue Reading →
On Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019, I began a fasting process in which once a week, I would fast from all but water from one meal on a particular day Continue Reading →