Healing is a mystery. We don’t understand it. All we can do is to prepare our bodies to receive it. That’s what doctors do. They do it with surgery, with…
The famous anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was once asked this question: What was the earliest sign of civilization in any given culture? The reporter expected the answer to be a…
“I saw the cross on his collar, and I broke down in tears.” That’s what Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman said after returning from one of the most intense experiences…
In today’s Gospel (John 10:1-10) Jesus presents himself as the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd calls his sheep by name. He leads them. This shows us that Jesus knows each…
A young girl is eating dinner at a friend’s house. Her friend’s mother asks if she likes brussels sprouts. “Yes, of course,” the girl replied. “I like brussels sprouts.” After…
There’s something sleeping inside usDown in the soil of our chestsIts pulse hides behind our pulseIts breath behind our breath. When the world is grim, it awakensAnd grows to fill…
There once was a young woman who had a baby boy. Just after her son’s baptism, a ragged old man came to her, and offered to grant her one wish on behalf…
Imagine that Jesus is watching television with his twelve disciples. They’re on furlough from teaching and healing, taking it easy in the living room of Peter’s mother-in-law, doing a little…
Stock market guru Jim Cramer, host of television’s Mad Money, says, “Bulls make money.” Then he adds, “Bears make money.” Then the punch line, “Pigs get slaughtered.” “Bulls make money. Bears make…
A hundred feet above the Apurimac River, near the remote village of Huinchiri, Peru there is a suspension bridge that connects the Limi-Cuzzo Road. It has been there since the…
