Walking around the land of the Irish this evening and everywhere I look, I see green shirts, green beads, green hats emblazoned with shamrocks or the word “IRISH”, a few brave fools wearing green shorts in the 20 degree chill, and some wise, green coat-clad ladies carrying steaming cups branded with a familiar green logo….

My friend, Angela, shared an article with me on Patheos by Ben Corey today about preachers/ministry workers who live in multimillion dollar homes and live lavish lifestyles while so much of the world is impoverished. The article then went on to point out that not only are they at fault for choosing those lifestyles (mansions,…

Last evening I was driving down a snow-covered country road that hadn’t been plowed. The setting sun a magnificent display of beautiful pinks and yellows on my left and the edges of the tire tracks ahead highlighted by the setting sun. Sometimes it seems that the road less traveled by is an uneven, uphill, tangled…

It’s very quiet way up here at the top of the library. I’m at the end of two rows of books facing a window that looks out over the campus of Notre Dame, lights sparkling in the gently  falling snow. To my right, La Vie Spirituelle, apparently a French journal – the entire right side…