Author page: Fr. Barnabas Powell

I remember as a boy dreading recess at school. You see, I was a bit of a bookworm and not very athletic, and so when it came to being picked for teams, I was usually the kid who got picked last. Ugh! I hated that. It was embarrassing and it made me feel like a…

Sometimes you have to wonder why we so easily miss it. You know, the obvious stuff that, once we see it, we wonder how we missed it in the first place! My girls like those puzzles where you are supposed to find the hidden pictures in a larger picture, but invariably I hear this little…

It's Gift Giving Season! But that can be dangerous if you don't know WHY Giving is vital to your spiritual well-being! Listen to St. Poemen. "As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin." Why? Why does…

Why is it we humans struggle with understanding certain things about life, technology, relationships, politics, and the list goes on and on? Well, it's got everything to do with different experiences, different upbringing, different priorities, and so on. But what if there was a basic understanding that was fundamentally common to all humans, something meant…