Ah, summertime! The season of vacations, a more relaxed pace of life, adventures, and warm weather. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy….” Summertime is such a wonderful time of year.
But…
I’m not a big, outdoorsy, guy. So, camping out was never something I really enjoyed, except for this one time. Me and my best friend, Mark, had a great “fort”…
“Excellence” is a term we hear a lot in sports and in business. And that ties the word to an idea of achievement or progress.
But there is also an application…
"Father is not a title!" By now my parishioners and catechumens are sick of hearing me say this. But I say it so much because there is real healing truth…
The great American poet Henry David Thoreau said "If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself." I…
Dear Faith Encouraged TV Friends and Supporters,
It's that time of year again, and I wanted to thank you for your faithful partnership with Faith Encouraged TV. We will have a…
"Now THAT's a real American!" The conversation centered, as all conversations seem to during an election year, on a particular political idea. The enthusiastic judge of what a "true American"…
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…
Weakness is something that I have a particular fear of experiencing. In fact, the older I get, the more I see my fear of appearing "weak" has shaped my choices,…
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…