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Stop Wasting Your Existence

Stop Wasting Your Existence

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...

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Fight Not Against Flesh and Blood

Fight Not Against Flesh and Blood

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,...

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The Apolitical Gospel

The Apolitical Gospel

September 12, 1960: John F. Kennedy was running for president – the first Catholic to do so. As such, much of the American public...

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Jay Gatsby and Searching for Our Own Daisy

Jay Gatsby and Searching for Our Own Daisy

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...

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Gospel Hospitality

Gospel Hospitality

Most of us know what it feels like to play the role of host or hostess. Whether for a weekend dinner, a work event,...

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Another Lynching

Another Lynching

In the 19th century, lynching was a way of punishing a crime such as murder or cattle theft. Lynching was an almost ceremonial type...

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Which Came First: The Man or the Primordial Soup?

Which Came First: The Man or the Primordial Soup?

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...

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We Don’t Want Your Thoughts and Prayers

We Don’t Want Your Thoughts and Prayers

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...

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The Destruction and Rebirth of North American Forests

The Destruction and Rebirth of North American Forests

Several weeks ago, I stumbled across an alarming article from National Geographic. In it, the author explains the current state of North America’s...

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Legacy

Legacy

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...

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