The Good Enough Mother and Her Perfect Ballerina
Just before Christmas, our four-year-old daughter donned a green sequin costume with the rest of her ballet class and performed a dance routine for a packed auditorium of proud, swooning parents. The...
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Mental Health Break: Awkward Pregnancy Photos
It's been a tough week and I'm processing some raw emotions right now. (More later about this when I've had more time to regroup.) These pregnancy shots are helping to lighten the doldrums a bit. Check...
View ArticleApostolic Obsessive Compulsive Disorder…Seriously?
The other day I read an article by a fellow hospice chaplain, Emma Churchman, reflecting on ministry to the sick and the dying. The job of chaplain, as Churchman puts it so beautifully, is primarily...
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The Vatican Diaries: A Review
Sex. Money. Power. Corruption. Controversy. Scandal. Since the 1980's Catholic News Service reporter John Thavis has been covering all of it and more—not from a post in Las Vegas or the nation's...Read...
View ArticleThe Golden Chair
Hi again. I've missed you all. This past week, thoughts of meeting again at this intersection between life and God have crossed my mind between writing deadlines, bedside conversations with dying...
View ArticleMental Health Break— “Sea Song” and Lisa Hannigan
This week the theme of the sea put to music especially touched me as our family grieves the loss of my granddad. My granddad was a lifelong sailor and lover of the sea, and we will scatter some of his...
View ArticleJohn Oliver vs. Televangelists and Their “Big Seed” Prosperity Gospel
If you've not seen it, you must: John Oliver on "Last Week Tonight" offered the most brilliantly funny rebuke of televangelists and the prosperity gospel I've seen to date. Oliver doesn't mince words,...
View ArticleNutshell Gospel: “Love Is the Most Important Thing”
Front row seats to the pool. Her kids and mine doing back float drills and breathing techniques. We've exchanged small talk before. She is tall, graceful, around my age, and nearly totally bald – and...
View Article“S” is for “Surrender”: REST for Restless Souls, Via the 12 Steps
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him." - Step 3 Back at this intersection between God and life after a leisurely week in Tulum, Mexico, I've been...
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