For over a month now I have thought daily of my friend who committed suicide in late June. She wasn’t really my friend in the best buds sort of way, we didn’t run in the same circles, and she was a...

For about a month now, I have been staring at a page on my computer on which I had written “The Power of Prayer” at the top. I kept meaning to come back to it and write something under the heading...

For the last several weeks, I’ve been mulling over the idea that by failing to keep Sunday special will cause us to continue to lose congregants. I have absolutely no scientific data to prove this...

Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter are always so familiar to me. I find the whole process incredibly comforting, like a roaring fire on a cold winter’s night. The hymns from All Glory Laud and Honor...

Many years ago, when I was a member of St. Andrew’s, Downers Grove, IL, I asked a question of the Deacon. Now, this Deacon was once a Catholic and a man of great humor. We often engaged in a...