Imagine for a moment being 11 years old, and the older boy down the block (the one you admire and wish you were like) sends you a text with a video link of himself and his friends playing soccer. You are surprised and secretly delighted that he would want to share this video with [...]

Last week, we jumped into the deep end of Christianity by reflecting on the resurrection of your body. This week, I want to continue swimming in these deep waters so as to become more comfortable with their depth as well as delving into our eternal state in heaven. For many people, thoughts of heaven consist [...]

If you were stranded on a deserted island and only had 2 items to read, what would they be? Would you choose a magazine article that impacted your life? A chapter from Scripture? Your favorite comic book? A love letter from your spouse or family member? What could sustain you as you read it over [...]

Last week (Blog #10), we interrupted our “regularly scheduled” blog topics to trace the roots of our cultural conflict over marriage, sex, and gender. We did a quick tour through Nominalism – which emphasized God’s BIG Will – as well as Descartes’ split between language and reality and his jettisoning of final cause (i.e., what [...]

Have you ever been on your way somewhere and you became delightfully distracted by another reality, so much so that you had to forsake the path you were on and investigate this new reality? Well, something similar happened with this blog. For the past couple weeks, I’ve been happily pursuing in this blog a very [...]

Last week’s blog on living the "in-between times" ("Life is an Advent"), originally had a different ending. After agonizing over multiple revisions, I finally cut the original ending and decided to make it a blog in its own right. And voila, here it is! However, in the “in between-time” between severing the ending from its [...]

I love basketball. However, it wasn’t always so. Even though I am quite athletic, my childhood gym-time was spent learning backflips and balance beam routines, not shooting baskets. My son, on the other hand, developed a great love for basketball, requiring me to spend countless evenings and weekends watching him play. Although it wasn’t love [...]

If you made it through last week’s blog on “Christmas is a Wedding!” I’d like to pump your arm up and down in a vigorous handshake and congratulate you. We tackled one of the toughest topics in all of Christianity, and, in fact, in the whole history of humankind – how the infinite, spiritual God [...]

My second-grade teacher, Sr. Mary Francis, burst my childhood bubble when, a few weeks before Christmas, she asked her class of eight-year-olds, “Did Baby Jesus cry?” I shot my hand up and was the first to answer (some things never change…): “No!” I proudly pronounced. “Yes, He did,” she kindly corrected me. “Because He was [...]

Early in my speaking career I gave a two-day workshop for the fledgling (but now robust!) organization, Family Honor. Halfway through the second day, one of the participants pointedly asked, "You've covered a lot of material, but why haven't you said anything about love?" Interiorly, I sputtered in my tracks. Exteriorly, I tried to refrain [...]