To get one’s spiritual life right, one often has to live “upside down.” To be great, one has to serve. To be holy, one has to confront sin rather than block it out. To gain your life, you have to lose it. To accomplish what the…
Read MoreOne great thing about my experience of giving the philosophy talk at UD was that so many of my former students came to see the presentation, and then stayed to visit afterwards. I taught them over 2 years ago, and so it was unexpectedly delightful that they wanted to attend. They had such…
Read MoreToday I am giving a talk at UD on the philosophical justification of the dignity of the human person–I am really looking forward to it!
Read MoreMy new favorite book is called, Divine Mercy: A Guide from Genesis to Benedict XVI by Robert Stackpole. Despite it’s fertile teachings, I disagree with the first sentence, which reads: “This book is a guide to a message that the world desperately needs to hear. This message comes from ‘above,’ ‘right from…
Read MorePentecost is the Holy Spirit coming down upon a person and into their heart, mind and spirit. I was blessed to witness the Holy Spirit come down upon my dear friend, Samantha. How blessed I am to be her sponsor! What could matter more than that a person be in…
Read More“No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed: rather he places it on a lamp stand so that those who enter may see the light,” (Lk. 8:16) One of my favorite things about being a Christian is how I feel Christ’s light shining….
Read More“Whoever wants to be first, shall be last and servant of all.” This is what Christ said to the apostles who were discussing who among them would be greatest. Being last must be different for all people. Maybe it means not receiving honors or promotions at one’s workplace, and accepting this well….
Read MoreI love Thomas Aquinas. He is such a mystic. The cornerstone of his philosophy is that we are radically dependent for our very existence on God. He balances this existential dependence with a robust ontology of material beings. We are not shadows of reality (as Plato might have it), but substances (as Aristotle…
Read MoreEvery year I have a spiritual goal. One year it was humility, then joy, then getting upset well, then humility again, and so on. This year is, “Speaking the truth in love,” a phrase from Ephesians. A Man for All Seasons is such a great movie. I had not seen it in…
Read MoreIn taking on family life, I chose to renounce the world. Just as a nun or a monk renounces the world to gain intimacy with Christ in a concrete, all-encompassing manner, so have I left the world, and my home is where I seek Christ. I feel that I have gifts…
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