Are You Taking Your Cue From Twitter’s Lent Tracker This Year?
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent, a penitential period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving for Christians worldwide. Fasting also happens to be one of the Five Pillars...
View ArticleFrom Thrillness To Stillness.
Life for so many is a perpetual whirligig of sensory excitement and adventure; of constant motion, momentum, and mobility as one squeezes all that one can out of the world’s cornucopia of delights....
View ArticleHow To Navigate The Lonely Pitfalls Of Youth.
I’m at the library working on my book. In walks a teenage friend of mine. On seeing me, she immediately pulls a book off the shelves and announces, “You need to read this.” So the following week, on...
View ArticleBernie Sanders and Pope Francis Share the Same Spirit of Poverty.
While Donald Trump sparks with the Vatican over his proposal to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, Bernie Sanders waxes eloquently on the pope’s Spirit of Poverty in a culture of obscene wealth....
View Article5 Questions to Consider Before Uttering (or Writing) a Word.
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” ~ Napoleon Hill In a digital age of Smartphone texting and...
View ArticleSt. Patrick: Shifty Beguiler of the Native Celts
It’s Paddy’s Day on Thursday, March 17th. So firstly, as a native Irishman living stateside, I’d like to set the record straight: the Irish don’t eat (nor particularly like) corned beef! Traditionally...
View ArticleSolo Sex: Taking “Holy Orgasm” into Our Own Hands
As I wait kneeling in the dark, musty confessional for the priest to slide back the screen separating his side of the “sin bin” to mine, I go over one more time my list of venial and possibly “mortal”...
View ArticleGood Friday and Why I’m Over It
Here’s the thing: we’re all familiar with the brutality and violence of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ from 2004. Some are still reeling and traumatized by the bloody flick. Thank God there’s...
View ArticleSimple Living Is The Perfect Antidote To Mindless Consumerism.
In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush urged Americans not to be intimidated by the “war on terror,” but to get back to our lives of shopping, flying and “business as usual.” The dubious...
View ArticleWhat Does the Concept of Resurrection Really Mean?
Now that I’m done with my rant on Good Friday that ruffled a trillion feathers, here’s my gentler take on the liturgical season of Easter and Resurrection. The paradoxical nature of it all is this:...
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