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Stay Awake
44Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. – Matthew 24:44 ESV I’m truly reluctant to do anything eschatological in my public communication for it’s a huge responsibility. Although I must confess that privately I’ve thought about it my whole life since I was a small boy. A feeling of uneasiness has been with me so long it’s part of my nature. It’s the other half that drives…
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The Catholic Pastor
I’m a Catholic Pastor. Raised a Catholic, I haven’t always thought favorably about the church. Like others, I had my questions and criticisms, likes and dislikes, yet a deep profound love and loyalty. I thought of being a priest many times in my life, even looking it up to see how old one can be. I’m too old. I gave myself to servitude to God in 2017, as a Pastor. Not quite the same, but a distinction with its own…
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Muddy Waters
The Christian space is saturated to the point of cacophonous buzzing, and my sincere conclusion is that it’s not succeeding as we promised. ‘More is better’ is the way it should work, but somehow more has gotten to be muddy, too many colors mixed incessantly until it’s one shade of nondescript brown water that everyone’s being baptized in with no affect. Add to that the continuous weaponization of Jesus and Christianity for greed and political means (as has always been…