Beyond the Cliché: Can Suffering Actually Change Us for the Better?
We’ve all been there. A bad day, week, month, or year. We just got passed over for a promotion. We just learned that a close…
5 Ways to Make Lent More Spiritual This Year
Lent, the Christian season of reflection and renewal, is an opportunity to step back and take a good, hard, 40-day look at our spiritual lives.…
10 Small Community Ideas for Big Summer Impact
Ah, summer. A time for vacationing, sand between toes, sitting by the pool, and watching as an ever-increasing percentage of your paycheck goes to paying…
Inspiration From My Grandmother: How I’m Learning to Find Hope in a Troubled World
My grandmother loved New England. Coastal New England, to be precise. She loved the region so much that she co-wrote a half dozen or so…
Ways to Give Thanks and Give Back This Fall
Fall presents us with a unique opportunity to give thanks. November, especially, is focused on gratitude and remembering the many things that we all too…
Don’t Forget About Hospitality This Lent
Hospitality is perhaps not the first virtue we think of when setting out on our Lenten journey. We look to more austere concepts like sacrifice,…
Parenting Your Child (And Yourself) In the Digital World
“Isn’t this cute, Daddy?” Her voice startled me out of my accidental slumber. I glanced up, realizing my daughter had blown past her allotted screen…
Little Acts of Hope: How to Overcome a Sense of Helplessness at the World’s Problems
During Lent, I gave up checking my phone every morning before work. It was an effort to keep my mind free from the noise of…
How to Recover Gracefully From a Cultural Misstep
It’s not easy confessing a mistake or apologizing for an insult. It’s particularly difficult when you don’t speak the same language as the person you’ve…
Does the Pope’s Mercy Have a Place in ‘Game of Thrones’?
One final time, winter is coming. Sunday, April 14, “Game of Thrones” returns to HBO for its eighth and final season, bringing George R.R. Martin’s…