These (very) short essays about unexpectedly experiencing God in the world today include stories of perseverance, love and gratitude.
Faith in Focus
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What is a dad’s role in the delivery room?
What does a dad “do” during the birth of his child? I went to St. Joseph for help.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My family’s Nativity scene is imperfect and broken. But I like it that way.
Each year we lose or break a figure in our Nativity scene, but the beauty of this family tradition lies in its brokenness.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Catholic guide to making—and sticking to—your New Year’s resolution
Want to keep your New Year’s resolution? Try going to confession—and therapy.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The perfect imperfections of a children’s Nativity pageant
I don’t imagine sheep making funny faces while being too shy to “baa” on that very first Christmas, but it’s the imperfections in our retelling of the very human story of Christ’s birth that make our play so perfect.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
‘Maybe Christmas will stop the war’: A child’s hope and other scenes from Bethlehem
This year in Bethlehem, we are waiting for a hope that I am not sure I would even be able to believe in anymore, except that it does not entirely depend on us.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Staying in Gaza as an act of love: Stories from the Catholics who risk their lives to serve
Media headlines often invoke only negative images whenever Gaza is mentioned. Yet just beneath these headlines are inspiring examples of love and faith in humanity.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I love my Advent wreath. I just keep forgetting to light it.
Lighting the Advent wreath is a beautiful tradition, and I’m hoping that how I approach it is more important than how often.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The holiness of asking for help
By letting others in, we enable them to do the work of God.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Searching for the Holy Dirt: What I learned while hitchhiking to El Santuario de Chimayo
All you can do is what you can do and then the Holy Spirit has to take over.