The Problem With Capacity
"And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus…They were so frightened." In my last CrossCurrents post, I...
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- Jan 25
- 5 min
What It Takes to Persevere
I have an active mind: thoughts and ideas always bouncing around, waiting to be anchored down and put together in a constructive way....
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
Pride and Humility
As one of the 7 deadly sins, I think pride gets a bad rap. I’ll explain more in a bit, but let me first tell you about last week when I...
- Aug 19, 2022
- 4 min
The Miracle and Mystery of High School
“To raise any child is to live in the constant presence of a miracle and a mystery.” Wow. Jim McDermott hit the nail on the head with...
- Nov 19, 2021
- 5 min
THREE CHEERS FOR BURNING HAIR
Today there are 125 people counting on me to deliver. Personally. To each of them. What I deliver has the potential to impact them for...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
Young People and a Hope-Filled Future
I’m about to break every rule regarding the do’s and don’ts of entertaining an audience. I’m going to tell you about my vacation. My wife...
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
Do I Really Want To Be Holy?
I pray the rosary. I admit this with trepidation as I can feel judgment being formed by readers, some thinking “he’s one of us” and...
- Dec 29, 2020
- 4 min
Finding Faith on a Cartesian Plane
I want to revisit via a circuitous route my last post about Faith serving as a person’s bedrock - nuancing slightly my previous analogy....
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Teaching by Being Taught
As an institution, De Smet Jesuit High School has exercised a guiding hand in my life since before I can remember. In 1983, the year of...
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min
Learning to Swim in a Pandemic
Back to school we go. Buckle up; it promises to be a wild ride. Recently, I’ve been talking about how administrators and teachers have...
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