The Acts of the Apostles show the community struggling to understand and make sense of their experiences.
Mindwalk: Latest posts and thoughts…
Acts of the Apostles – Prequel for Today’s Polarization?
Exploring lessons from clashing mindsets in the early church.
Easter – Missing the Point?
Easter … comfort or challenge? We get the facts right… but so we miss the point.
St. Joseph’s Dreams – What Vincentians Can Learn
Pope Francis describes God as a dreamer. Think about it! Isn’t God’s dream another name for God’s plan for us and all creation? Do we ever get beyond our own dreams to think of God’s Dream?
Changing the clocks… of our lives?
Changing our clocks.We can think about this annual ritual as a metaphor for our lives.
What if we could “replay” an hour that we lost in our lives. Of course, we don’t get to replay the hour we lost. Nor do we get to skip ahead and see our futures by changing.
The Contagion of Christianity
“They’ll know we are Christians by our love.” Do others know we are Christians by our practical love. Love for rich and the poor, the sick, the imprisoned, saints and sinners, those who think differently or have different color skin?
How Could That Happen?
How could it happen? How could the Christian movement spread so rapidly especially in such adverse conditions?
What Did You Learn In School Today?
In Lent, we think about what am I going to give up. The question really ought to be “what did I learn about God, myself and my relationship with my sisters and brothers?”
Great Idea! … But!
VIrtually no one thought it was a good idea for Pope Francis to go to Iraq. A great idea… BUT!
Lost Your Identity?
When we lose proof of who we are or memories of the joys and sorrows of our lives, something very precious is gone.
A Mother Watches Her Child Suffer
There is a special pain that cuts through the hearts of mothers especially, but fathers also, as they see their child suffer. There is so much more to Mary’s grief than the final stage so masterfully captured in Michelangelo’s Pieta.
Women, Sigmund Freud, Prof. Higgins, and… St Vincent DePaul?
Elizabeth Simcoe is called the “Parish Life Director”. She stands in a tradition going back 2000 years. The notion of the priesthood as we know it today had not yet developed.
What’s Happening With the Mail?
Another kind of Gmail… God’s mail. That sent me off through the corridors of postal language. Who delivers God’s mail? Jesus himself was the ultimate mail from God! He was also God’s personally chosen delivery person!