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...

The older I get the more I am willing to admit that I don’t have all the answers and that I do not need all the answers. I’m not saying...

In A Grief Observed, CS Lewis journals his thoughts and emotions after the tragic loss of his wife/lover who succumbed to cancer. Over...

Many of the chaplain call outs I or my chaplain team responds to are for older adults who suddenly passed away at home. I would not call...

My twenty-one-year-old son happened to be passing through the kitchen the other night. That’s where the food is. He’s not a man of many...

"Lord, keep him safe. Dear, God watch over her." Have you ever prayed that way? Do you now? I sure have. But in recent years I have...

The point of Jesus was to reveal God. However, who Jesus revealed God to be, was diametrically opposed to the exacting, condemning,...

"I do not know what will kill me first–the beauty of this world or the sorrow of it. There is a bliss that no amount of ache can steal...

The basis for my book is the answer I received when I ask people on the scene of a tragic loss, "Do you have a faith?" Response 90% of...

Sticking with the motorcycle theme from last post I want to speak about how things change. Eight of us bikers gathered in Las Vegas on...