Life at Sea: What Christians can Learn from Sailors
I have a deep love for the ocean. Although I was born a few miles from it, we moved to Alberta before I was a year old, so I remember…
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If You only Knew….
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” -Michelangelo The great gift of any great artist is the…
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“Hating the Sin” (but never a person!)
At the end of confession, the priest usually invites me to pray an act of contrition – a prayer saying that I’m sorry for my sins. This is the prayer…
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Christian Marriage
I remember being given a flyer by my youth minister which began by saying “everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone…” – on this side of Heaven, one of…
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Why do good people suffer?
In the nearly 13 years I have been serving in youth ministry, one of my most vivid experiences is one I never expected to have at all. I was a…
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The Last Four Things
Let’s get the bad news out of the way right off the bat: we’re all going to die. While we may not think about it very often, death is inevitable….
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Audacious Faith: “This IS my body…”
Every Sunday, from the time I was seven years old, I would walk up the aisle of my local parish Church. When I got to the front of the line,…
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Audacious Faith: “He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit”
Scripture begins with the story of a man and a woman saying a definitive “no” to their creator, rejecting not only God’s one direction to them (don’t eat the fruit!),…
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Against Varnish
At Catholicymblog.com, one of my favorite websites, D. Scott Miller posted a fantastic quote a couple years ago discouraging youth ministers from sharing a “Christian varnish” with our youth. (The…
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Lessons from Summer Camp
In May of 1997, to try and spend more time with a girl I liked, I signed up to be a counselor at the Youth for Christ Camp (Camp St….