Living Faith magazine, published by Creative Communications for the Parish in St. Louis, MO, placed in the top five of Apple’s U.S. iBooks Bestseller List among religious publications in January. According to Publisher’s Weekly, a national trade publication, Living Faith was...
My thoughts this week have been dominated by two powerful media events. The first event is the death of a justice of the US Supreme Court and the raging divisions the death highlighted. The second is the progress of the...
It seems like every time I answer the phone I get the quick query, "Is this a good time?" I have even heard the sentence (actually more than once), "I just called to set a time for a phone conversation."...
As I was reading the results of the Iowa caucuses—the first real step in the seemingly eternal quest to become President of the United States—I remembered that I once flirted with the idea of running for public office. I thought...
You just have to admire Chicken Little. Even in a fable, it takes great courage for a little chick to inform the entire poultry community that the sky is falling. The major flaw in his prophetic message was, to be...
The other morning I was standing in the kitchen listening to the headlines on the early morning news. In a matter of just a few minutes, I was informed of two assaults, a police officer wounded in a random shooting, a...
The drumbeat during the run up to the largest lottery prize ever has been very interesting to me. The media are having a ball concentrating everyone’s attention on the potential for winning big (as a few good people just did). TV interviews...
Blessed with a hearty appetite and as a man of “generous girth,” I can tell you that I have never been truly hungry. I grew up in a family of fairly portly folks who saw food as a joy in...