Dropping the cross
Posted in faithreligionspiritualityMy first memory in relation to religion is dropping a cross. I was an altar boy at the time, all of probably ten or so. If that. I was in grade school, and I might...
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Posted in faithspiritualityteachingwritingI don’t know why, but I’ve always wanted to post a blog from Leavey Library, here at school. I’ve posted from my office once or twice, but never from here. I...
View ArticleStroke of insight leads to nirvana (or does it?)
Posted in booksfaithjournalismlifereligionsciencespiritualityOver the weekend, I caught an article at The New York Times.com concerning Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard neuroscientist who claims to have...
View ArticleI just don’t know what to do with myself
Posted in booksfaithgrad schoollifepublishingreligionsciencespiritualitywritingI went to an information session today at Regis University, a Jesuit institution in northern Denver. I think it’s best I...
View ArticleOn being full of one’s self
Posted in faithlifespiritualityEarlier today, I got an e-mail from Cheryl Anne Gardner of POD People. I queried their site a while ago in the hope that they might review Entrekin. I figured they were...
View ArticleCreation is a myth, but that doesn’t make it any less true
Posted in educationfaithpoliticsreligionsciencespiritualityteachingThis morning, I talked to my brother. My brother and I have a sometimes somewhat awkward relationship; he’s a “Born Again” Christian...
View ArticleA cooler man (there may never be)
Posted in awesomenessentertainmentlifeMoviespop culturespiritualityThrough most of my life, at various times, various people have remarked I look like others. Just a few weeks ago, during an...
View ArticleOn the occasion of the Samhain
Posted in bloggingfaithlifepop culturereligionspiritualitywritingWhen I was younger and first breaking from Catholicism, I became very interested in Wicca and paganism. Something about the more natural...
View ArticleChristmas wishes
Posted in economyfaithlifemusicspiritualitytelevisionI have to admit that in the past few years, I’ve become less interested in Christmas and holiday festivities. I’d say it began two years ago, the...
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