Over the weekend I attended #Wildgoose14 and had a chance to sit down and talk about my passion for ending hunger with the great guys at the “Moonshine Jesus” show. It was a absolute blast! I encourage you to take a listen to the conversation below! We also created a fun hashtag game… contribute at #firstworldhungerproblems Read more

A few years ago I spent a summer working as a hospital chaplain. It was one of the most challenging things I have ever done. Chaplains are rarely called when things are going well. They are called when something goes wrong in an operation. They are called when tragedy strikes. Chaplains are asked to escort people through death, and failure, and sorrow beyond words. They are called in when the vocabulary of medicine is unable to address the most pressing... Read more

One of the major difficulties that people have with the Catholic faith is the role that saints play in the lives of individuals. This was certainly a major issue in my own journey to join the Church. I always feared that by emphasizing the saints that somehow I would be taking emphasis off of Jesus. This understanding missed the point. The Christian life is not a zero-sum game. In truth, the saints are Christ’s body extended through the church. They... Read more

Although I am a Catholic, I never would have made it to the Catholic Church if it wasn’t for a detour I took through the world Eastern Orthodoxy. The Eastern Christian Churches (in all of their many forms) have a rich history and liturgy that draw from deep and rich wells of the Christian tradition. I think those of us in the west have a great deal that we can learn from our Eastern brethren. Here is a list of... Read more

  Even though much of my own theology is influenced more by Eastern theology than Western theology, I have chosen to remain a Western Christian and joined the Latin rite when I entered the Catholic Church. I remained a Western Christian because I am a child of the West, and I truly believe that God has done some amazing things in the West. I did not want to turn my back on the rich tradition and language that formed so... Read more

There are few things in the World that break my heart as much as reading about the tragic moments in the Church’s history that have caused schism. Perhaps the greatest wound the church has endured is the severing of its Eastern and Western lungs, the schism of the East from the West. For nearly 1,000 years, half of our history, the West has lived divorced from the wisdom of much of the Eastern Church, and Most of the Eastern Churches... Read more

I’m not sure if you caught the interview with Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe on the Colbert Report. In it she talks about abductions in Africa, and how important it is for people to care. Sister Rosemary was such a joy and an inspiration in the video I thought I would share it with you all here:   Sister Romemary was listed as one of Time’s 100 most influential people. They write of her: In Gulu, Uganda, Sister Rosemary has made it her mission... Read more

One of the books that changed my life is Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. It was the first book of Chesterton’s that I read, but certainly not the last.  The part of the book which has made the largest impact on my own life is a section where he compares the logician to the poet. I decided I would turn that section into a picture so I could share it on my Pintrest. I thought you all might like it too, so I... Read more

Over the weekend I read through Phyllis Tickle’s new book The Age of the Spirit. For those who don’t know Tickle, she is considered by many to be the godmother of the emergent church movement. She has traveled the country preaching that the church is in the midst of a new epoch which she has called “The Great Emergence.” This book is a continuation and deepening of her previous work on this subject. In this book Tickle traces seeks to look back at church... Read more