Beauty: An Abundant, Impractical Encounter With God
Being raised on a farm in rural South Dakota, I believe I understood simplicity and solitude from a young age. While my friends in town spent their summers together at the pool or on adventures, my...
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On a plane ride a few weeks ago, I found myself seated next to the founder of a Protestant church. He laughed because he was sandwiched between two Catholics, a married man who had been in Catholic...
View ArticleChristmas Two Thousands Years Later and Grace Is Still New
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (The Summer Day, Mary Oliver) We are in the midst of something new and something old. Hundreds of years have passed since...
View ArticleLiturgies of the Church: To Everything There is a Time
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) Particular moments and in life are too grand to be captured completely by anything new or...
View ArticleThe Other Side of a Vocation Story
I have prayed the Prayer for Vocations a couple thousand times and yet it wasn’t until fourteen years ago that it struck a chord. There is something they don’t tell you when you pray this prayer. Over...
View ArticleThe Camino de Santiago is Life
On July 2, 2014, I walked into Santiago de Compostela, the Camino de Santiago, completing five hundred miles of pilgrimage with great jubilance and much pondering. The final leg of the walk seemed...
View ArticleMt. Tabor Moments- It Is Good That We Are Here!
After roughly three years of public ministry, Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a mountain and revealed His glory to them. They had spent day after day with Jesus as He walked from town to town,...
View ArticleThe Vast Cloud of Witnesses: Lofty Saints and Saints A Little Like Me
The lives of the saints captivate me. The Church, in her wisdom, elevates various saints as witnesses of what a life fully embracing Christ can look like. Quite intentionally, I believe, these lives...
View ArticleBeauty: An Abundant, Impractical Encounter With God
Being raised on a farm in rural South Dakota, I believe I understood simplicity and solitude from a young age. While my friends in town spent their summers together at the pool or on adventures, my...
View ArticleEver Ancient, Ever New: The Gift of the Liturgical Year
On a plane ride a few weeks ago, I found myself seated next to the founder of a Protestant church. He laughed because he was sandwiched between two Catholics, a married man who had been in Catholic...
View ArticleChristmas Two Thousands Years Later and Grace Is Still New
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (The Summer Day, Mary Oliver) We are in the midst of something new and something old. Hundreds of years have passed since...
View ArticleLiturgies of the Church: To Everything There is a Time
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) Particular moments and in life are too grand to be captured completely by anything new or...
View ArticleThe Other Side of a Vocation Story
I have prayed the Prayer for Vocations a couple thousand times and yet it wasn’t until fourteen years ago that it struck a chord. There is something they don’t tell you when you pray this prayer. Over...
View ArticleThe Camino de Santiago is Life
On July 2, 2014, I walked into Santiago de Compostela, the Camino de Santiago, completing five hundred miles of pilgrimage with great jubilance and much pondering. The final leg of the walk seemed...
View ArticleMt. Tabor Moments- It Is Good That We Are Here!
After roughly three years of public ministry, Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a mountain and revealed His glory to them. They had spent day after day with Jesus as He walked from town to town,...
View ArticleThe Vast Cloud of Witnesses: Lofty Saints and Saints A Little Like Me
The lives of the saints captivate me. The Church, in her wisdom, elevates various saints as witnesses of what a life fully embracing Christ can look like. Quite intentionally, I believe, these lives...
View ArticleBeauty: An Abundant, Impractical Encounter With God
Being raised on a farm in rural South Dakota, I believe I understood simplicity and solitude from a young age. While my friends in town spent their summers together at the pool or on adventures, my...
View ArticleEver Ancient, Ever New: The Gift of the Liturgical Year
On a plane ride a few weeks ago, I found myself seated next to the founder of a Protestant church. He laughed because he was sandwiched between two Catholics, a married man who had been in Catholic...
View ArticleChristmas Two Thousands Years Later and Grace Is Still New
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (The Summer Day, Mary Oliver) We are in the midst of something new and something old. Hundreds of years have passed since...
View ArticleLiturgies of the Church: To Everything There is a Time
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) Particular moments and in life are too grand to be captured completely by anything new or...
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