This particular emergency room is all too familiar to me: I know the room numbers and their location almost by memory now, having been called upon to pray here more times than I care to recall. But every situation is a bit different; this one caught me by the throat. I had known Colin since …
I pressed on, hiking about 50 feet in front of Mary, who was straining to keep up. Dave, not in any particular hurry, lagged behind her another 15 yards or so. “I just know the clearing in the woods was right about here,” I shouted back to my two grown children. Still unable to find …
It won’t happen again until the year 79811. That’s 77,798 years from now. So if you’re Jewish, enjoy the moment. I’m referring to the concurrence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Some American Jews are calling it Thanksgivukkah. Actually Hanukkah begins on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving, which this year falls on November 28. It’s a rare …
I sat down to the evening news. That’s not always the best thing to do if you want to unwind for the day, which was my intent. I had been to a conference sponsored by the Sustainable Religious Lands Committee of the Festival of Faiths. In partnership with the Center for Interfaith Relations and Bellarmine University’s …
I first planted a garden because of something an Italian monk wrote some 1500 years ago. His name is Benedict— St. Benedict of Nursia. And the document he penned became known as his Rule or guide for monastic life. As author Jon Sweeney has noted, the Rule of St. Benedict became not only the basic …