What Ties You Down To Your Mat?
Reflection during the reconciliation service for the UB Charis Retreat this weekend: Sometimes our friends think more of us than we think of ourselves. Don’t they? Take the friends of…
What’s God Gotta Do?
Today’s 19th Annotation Scripture is from Deuteronomy: “But I said to you, ‘Have no dread or fear of them. The LORD, your God, who goes before you, will himself fight…
College Students: Competitive or Collaborative?
Amanda Woods, one of the students at UB who I’ve gotten to know penned an excellent commentary in the UB Spectrum recently: A significant shift happens in college: people who…
An Episcopacy Divided
I’m going to touch on a few issues this morning. They all revolve around the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. It should be noted at the outset that I…
Place Me With Your Son
Two sections of Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises are part of my prayer today. “I want and I choose what better leads to God’s deepening life in me.” – St. Ignatius of…
Katie Makkai: Will I Be Pretty?
This is amazing. A hat tip to Lydia Moore, my colleague who supports the Catholic volunteers with Marion and I. I know she’s speaking to women mostly here. But I…
Do You Believe in the Devil?
Today’s NY Times reports on an Exorcism Conference which took place recently. A snip: There are only a handful of priests in the country trained as exorcists, but they say…
The Perky Pilot
So I’m presently on a delta flight from Atlanta to Baton Rouge. We’re waiting at the gate after 5 gate changes and then a change of aircraft. But that’s not…
Jesus Touches Me, Even When I Don’t Want Him To…
From today’s 19th Annotation readings..Luke’s gospel writes: He was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a…
I No Longer Deserve to Be Called Your Son
Imagine saying the words that the Prodigal Son utters to his Father? I can’t imagine doing something so awful that I would be afraid to go to my father and…