I work alongside some amazing people who are cops and firefighters. For many years I’ve shared with them some of the most heart...

It’s tough getting old! It is so cliché! My back! My neck! My knees! Arthritis setting in! Menthol and CBD creams! Can’t remember why I...

The older I get (and I am getting older but not ready to be “old” quite yet) the more I tend to stand back and question, wonder and...

My father was a pragmatist—Get er’ done! In the early 1900’s his parents escaped the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians which also...

I read this the other day. “God is not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we can think.” It is a strange world that we live...

I have a few embarrassing Costco stories. Like the time I dropped a large container of fresh blueberries in the parking lot as I was...

I ran across an online ad today which announced the first Sunday service of a new church in the area. Being a bit curious about it I...

Ewan McGregor, of Star Wars fame (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and many other films, has produced several adventure documentaries over the years...

One early morning a couple of weeks before Christmas when living in Austin I was having breakfast with several friends and my fire...

It was Christmas, and I was beholding a holiday spectacle of neatly wrapped and colorful presents. There were scarlet red boxes with...

In the mid-sixties I recall when my parents, trying to be hip with the times, purchased a console stereo for our home. It was a rather...

Recently I spent a day at a high school speaking to health classes about anxiety, depression and suicide. As a law enforcement chaplain,...

Franciscan priest and Catholic mystic writes in his book, The Universal Christ, "The Christian life is simply becoming who we already...

My buddy Ron and I decided to take my dad’s eighteen foot outboard boat out for a late afternoon shark fishing adventure. We were just...

I think this. I don’t know this, but I think it. I’ve never liked the concept of hell, the place of eternal torment and separation from...

I think a lot about death. Can't help it. I've been on hundreds of chaplain calls over the years where a death has occurred. Almost...

The San Ramon Valley, where I live and serve as a first responder chaplain, has a population of around 170,000. It is located in the...

Just got home and TV was on. A commercial caught my attention which was addressing something about heaven. It caught my attention...

I don’t know. So many people around where I live used to go to church. They’ve been there. Done that. If they walked into a church on any...

I think it must have been maybe the summer of 1975, take or add a year. My buddy Bill and I drove up from San Clemente to the University...