Where's the line when it comes to 'just kidding'?

My latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly:

"Is teasing a sin against the Fifth Commandment?"

"...For this we turn to a group of adolescent males shooting hoops in the driveway, inhaling burgers at the fast-food joint or shuffling down the school hallway. That is, in their native habitat...."

Give "personal" peace a chance

You can find my latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly here.

No, most of us won’t broker a fair and lasting truce between two countries, but each of us can do something about the inner turmoil that bubbles up within ourselves throughout our lives.
We can give “personal peace” a chance.

Peace!

Why God Wants You to Be a Little Impractical

My latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly.

Take comfort in the fact God is a big-picture guy. A creative, big-picture guy. It’s not that he’s playing chess while we’re playing checkers. Closer to he’s playing chess, and we’re gnawing on a checker piece. And drooling.

God understands that we don’t get it. If he had wanted us to completely get it, he would have created us to completely get it while on earth. (Later in heaven, yes!) But he didn’t. So we don’t.

The Spirituality of Creativity

The Spirituality of Creativity

My latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly. Featuring "20 Ways You're More Creative Than You Realize." (Including "your happy dance.")

Just keep writing.

So much stuff! Making room for God

“What I really want, Lord, is to be your faithful disciple, but we all need our creature comforts. Am I right, or am I right?”

My latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly.


Just keep writing.

"The virtue and and value of quitting (sometimes)"

 It's about time Jesus got some credit for being a quitter.

 My latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly.

Just keep writing.

It's a shame we're losing our (healthy) sense of shame

My latest at Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly with a sidebar titled: Shame and 'Little Catholic Girl Guilt'. (Bless them all, of all ages!)