Dear Faith Encouraged Family,
On tonight's show, my special guest, Fr. Panayiotis Papageorgiou, talked about his recent paper presented in Germany on the early contacts between the Protestant Reformers and the…
Ouch! That hurt! It wouldn't have hurt anymore if he'd actually hit me with his fists. He had confronted me with the reality that my words had so offended his…
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see." I can still hear…
American author Laird Barron once said "Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite…
The dictionary defines the word "obligation" as "an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment." When I was growing…
When we were very young, my brother and I got up one early Christmas morning to see what we got for Christmas. Now, mind you, our parents were still sound…
"I don't mean to say 'I told you so,' but I told you so!" I kind of doubt that he really didn't mean to tell me that. My buddy was…
In 1972 Stevie Wonder released the song Superstition. The opening guitar licks are still one the the most famous opening lines of any song I remember from my youth. But…
Politics makes strange bedfellows. When I start talking politics, especially as a priest, it makes folks (rightfully) nervous. After all, as a priest I'm suppose to focus on being accessible…
Do you know the difference between a barrier and a threshold? It's actually quite an important distinction.
The old saying goes "good fences make good neighbors" and there's no disputing…