"No person can serve two masters.  They will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and mammon."  (You cannot serve the true God while worshiping at the altar of a false god).  Matthew 6:24 When I was...

Easter Prayer of Brother Alois, Prior of Taize Christ Jesus, you did not remain in death, but you rose from the dead and you live with God.  Open our eyes and our hearts so that we can recognize the signs of your presence:  they are so humble that often we do not...

Read "Scientific Giant" below before reading this blog. Sir John Templeton was born in the USA but renounced his US citizenship and became a dual citizen of Great Britian and the Bahamas.  He was one of the original mutual fund creators and became a billionaire.  In...

Francisco Ayala was the winner of the 2010 Templeton Prize ($1.5 million), the largest individual prize, and always in the area of "contributing to life's spiritual dimension"  Ayala was ordained a Dominican priest in Spain in 1960.  He left the priesthood a year...

Aging/Dying Prayer When the signs of age begin to mark my body (and still more when they touch my mind); when the ill that is to diminish me or carry me off strikes from without or is born within me; When the painful moment comes in which I suddenly awaken to the fact...

There are two questions: 1. Who are our heroes and heroines? 2. What makes a person heroic? When we ask one another who are our heroes most of the answers can be included in one major category,  We list those who have done extraordinary things - in sports, in...

We are rushing to get ready for our time down in Australia where we have five parishes.  We leave on Thursday, April 23.  We start out in Minneapolis, fly to Chicago, then to San Francisco, then to Sydney and finally to the Gold Coast, Queensland.  That will be about...

At least 35 years ago I had a long conversation with one of the Theology (Bible) professors at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  (For those of you unfamiliar with ORU, it is one of the leading fundamental/evangelical universities in the USA.)  We were...

I recently composed this prayer for our Lenten Reconciliation Services Prayer for Forgiveness and Reconciliation Gracious and merciful God, the problems facing our human family are very grave and we are no longer isolated from one another.  We are confronted daiily...