- Even Today We Need Him Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas Day address is quite beautiful and resounding. Here it is translated from the Italian: Pope’s ‘Urbi et Orbi’. …How can we not hear, from the very depths of this humanity, at once joyful and anguished, a heart-rending cry for help? …Today “our Saviour is born to the world”, for he knows […]
- Most Vivid Dreams – Part 1 I’ve been having the most extensive, vivid dreams. Last night my dream was replete with Europe, my murderous spirit, show-tunes, The Last Supper, and the Postal Service. (Enjoy the trip in to my psyche. Any interpretations welcome.) In my dream last night I was with some of my roommates from Portugal, a couple youth group […]
- Grazie, Tino; 107 The sun is setting on another American Thanksgiving. The infamous “Black Friday” is approaching. (For all of our dear non-American friends, tomorrow is the day in the States when hoards of shopper-bugs descend on shopping malls and stores to get the most tasty Christmas sales. Some even camp out on the streets in the bitter […]
- Names Written on Water In 1999 I spent a semester studying in Rome. Just outside the old Roman walls, there is a Protestant cemetary where a great many famous Englishmen are buried. I wandered into that cemetary one perfectly overcast afternoon and spent time talking with God about life. I needed a break from the hustle of emotions that […]