The Las Vegas Tragedy — Are We In a Free Fall?
When we see something on the screen, even if we do not want to admit it, takes on a form of entertainment when watching.
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Author: Brother Mark Dohle
Looking Leviathan In the Face
Yesterday, Leviathan came up suddenly, bit me, and dragged me deep into my own inner hell.
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No brake function on the highway of our lives (Jesus promised that those who seek shall find)
I don’t want to die suddenly. I believe that the ‘last mile’ is the most important time of life.
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Trying Another Kind of Love
Our lives if spent failing to love others the way God wants us to only leads to more pain, death and destruction. He wants us to try another way.
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A Beggar Off I-75, Near the Cleveland Avenue Exit
He does not try to hide his brokenness, what life has done to him, probably would be honest about his own compliance in letting it happen, if asked.
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My Bickering Spirit Is Healed By a Breaking Heart
I have no answers on how to deal with the seeming cultural surrender to endless bickering. I do know that when this happens, those on both sides, in the end, only wound themselves and destroy their inner peace.
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Pope Francis and the Lives of Others
The world has always been a rough, messy, cruel, going-to-hell-in-a hand-basket kind of place, yet Christ Jesus came to us, loves us, and when we pray we are to open up our hearts to all
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Absolute Nakedness Before God – Ash Wednesday 2017
So yes, Ash Wednesday brings me face to face with the depth of faith and the pull of unbelief.
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An Encounter with Jesus Christ at Waffle House
When I first saw him, my impulse was to label him: ‘Drunk’ and ‘drug addict’ came to mind. But I caught myself and tried to encounter him as a simple human being, the same as me. Labels protect us from the messy humanity of others.
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The So-Called 60s Revolution: A Trappist Looks Back
I remember when Jimmy Hendrix and Janis the King and Queen of Rock, who both died from the lifestyles that they embraced and in pretty much the same manner, just weeks apart. Two great talents dead at an early age because they bought into a world view that was in the end destructive, not only to themselves but to others.
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