Humanity & Sacrifice: Giving Up ESPN for Lent

Humanity & Sacrifice: Giving Up ESPN for Lent

This has gone too far.  I have decided to take serious action. The other day it finally dawned on me that I’ve been going to ESPN.com for the sole reason of checking the most updated player efficiency ratings (PER) to see whether LeBron James’s numbers have slipped...
Suffering Love: On What the World Does to Children

Suffering Love: On What the World Does to Children

During the first week of my long retreat I was having disturbingly vivid dreams about wounded children. Every morning I’d awake having dreamt of kids in hospital beds, kids with swollen limbs, kids with gaping wounds that covered their bodies.  Terrible.  At the...
‘Tis A Gift To Be Simple…

‘Tis A Gift To Be Simple…

I still remember memorizing the Our Father as a child in Sunday school. Whenever I’m on a bumpy plane ride, that familiar prayer of my youth comes to me sooner than any comforting words I could assemble on my own.  When it comes down to it, I remember best what...