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...

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...