Lingering Holiday The Hallmark Christmas channel has endless stories featuring a girl named Holly or Noel and a boy named Nick or Chris who, after one of them achieves great success in the big city, returns to their hometown of Winterland or Candyville where they get...
Enough “Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings.” I don’t know where that quote originated but I’ve been thinking about it since Thanksgiving morning in the Church of the Little Flower where some of KC’s inner-city...
The Trail I live along the Old Santa Fe Trail, one of three major roadways originating nearly 200 years ago along the Missouri River heading west. Recently a landscape crew dug up a horseshoe in my front yard that dated back to the era of wagon trains, frontiersmen,...
Autumn Giving There are lots of opportunities to participate in Autumn Giving. If you’d like, I can serve as a conduit for your generosity or, in holiday language, we can make elves of ourselves. Journey to New Life, a ministry that assists incarcerated people to...
Ecclesial Twister The Vatican is a long way from Kansas City. But what is happening there impacts us here. This semester, I have the privilege to work at two local Catholic universities, Rockhurst and Avila. On the campuses, I witness tremendous diversity. ...
UPON THIS ROCK Age-Old New Ways When Jesus introduced new ways of thinking about religion to His Jewish community, most of the church hierarchy of the time did not accept it or want anything to do with it. When His followers began to reach out and engage non-Jews, it...
