Government Held Hostage
Art imitates life today with this scene from the West Wing. Pope Francis has been calling us to mercy and it seems there are far too many in the government who are less than merciful. Placing a last...
View ArticleDo You Have the Time?
Time..don’t run out on me. It’s a phrase that I’ve mentioned often in ministry as being an element that is essential to the development of faith. I challenge spiritual directees to prioritize their...
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Do Your Vulnerabilities Keep You Hostage?
This year I’ve been journeying with some of our Catholic Volunteers here in Buffalo. Their experience of living in community is always a challenge for each one of them. I look back to my senior year in...
View ArticleWhere Are Young Adults Found in the Greatest Numbers?
The answer is a simple and obvious one, but we’d probably not think of this immediately. The answer is in the Military. (#2 is prison, BTW) Tomorrow I head to Washington, D.C. to a think tank with the...
View ArticleIn Tennis, Vocations Counts
The New York Times has a story today about the priest-vocations director of the Madison who is officiating a whole other type of “service.” He’s watching for foot faults and long shots and net balls as...
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What Does Home Mean to You?
So I’m beginning a third year here in Buffalo and it’s taken some time but Buffalo is starting to feel more and more like “Home.” I wouldn’t say that it’s completely there as of yet, but I began to...
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Dream Jobs Are Overrated
So I happened to be riveted to ESPN to follow the story of Theo Epstein’s move from the Boston Red Sox to the Chicago Cubs. Epstein, a lifelong Red Sox fan became the General Manager of the club and...
View ArticleOne Young Adult’s Experience of Finding a Church…Can you Relate?
Mary Donovan summed up what I’ve come to know as “the Church Search” trying to find a community that’s a good fit for one’s self. If find older people at times wondering why no young people are in...
View ArticleA Unitarian on Faith Formation
Since the Unitarians are a creedless faith, The Rev. Peter C. Boullata took up the charge of hoping that they haven’t “institutionalized narcissism. He talks about the challenge to do faith formation...
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She Will Go Lord, If You Lead Her
It is with a mix of sadness and joy that I bid farewell to my short-time Campus Ministry colleague, Julianne Wallace (pictured in the center flanked by Niagara Campus Minister, Kristina Schliesman and...
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Rebirths on Birthdays
My friend Chris turned 30 and got depressed. We both worked in radio and while it’s a fine occupation, one can begin to wonder what difference that last show really made in people’s lives. Ask anyone...
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Listen Me Into Life
Yesterday’s gospel turns the tables on a lot of social conventions. For instance, we heard in our first reading how lepers were “outsided” from the community and had to yell “unclean, unclean” so...
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