Stop Wasting Your Existence
- May 21, 2018
- by
- Joe Danehower
The healthiest of us will maybe get 90 years on this planet. The rest of us? Somewhere around 80. That’s roughly 4,000 Monday mornings, and I’d guess the average reader has already begrudgingly endured 1,500 of them.
For me, that’s a sobering thought. I often spend my Monday morning wishing it away. I want to get through the 10 hour work day, through 6 months til that precious week of vacation, or through 3 years at a job so I can move on to something more “exciting.” I think about my life in these bland...
Fight Not Against Flesh and Blood
- May 15, 2018
- by
- Cameron Robinson
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,...
The Apolitical Gospel
- May 14, 2018
- by
- Brandon Miller
September 12, 1960: John F. Kennedy was running for president – the first Catholic to do so. As such, much of the American public...
Jay Gatsby and Searching for Our Own Daisy
- May 13, 2018
- by
- Will Jordan
Let’s go back to tenth grade English class and dust off F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby (our mental image of...
Gospel Hospitality
- May 01, 2018
- by
- Meg Rodriguez
Most of us know what it feels like to play the role of host or hostess. Whether for a weekend dinner, a work event,...
Another Lynching
- April 19, 2018
- by
- Ardi Shahini
In the 19th century, lynching was a way of punishing a crime such as murder or cattle theft. Lynching was an almost ceremonial type...
Which Came First: The Man or the Primordial Soup?
- April 18, 2018
- by
- Lori Travers
Does it really matter what we believe about God and man, creation or Evolution, literal 24- hour periods or “thousand-year days”? I spent a...
We Don’t Want Your Thoughts and Prayers
- April 10, 2018
- by
- James Harris
I am so easily offended.
In our current political climate, there is a lot of talk about gun reform. With high profile, mass shootings happening...
The Destruction and Rebirth of North American Forests
- April 03, 2018
- by
- Conner Song
Several weeks ago, I stumbled across an alarming article from National Geographic. In it, the author explains the current state of North America’s...
Legacy
- April 01, 2018
- by
- Ivan Moore
There’s an iconic scene from the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic, “Walk the Line,” that, even today, sticks with me. During Cash’s audition for Sun...