Christian Living

  • My Spiritual Therapist

    My Spiritual Therapist

    I have a torn labrum. A few months ago, I didn’t know what a labrum was. I don’t even know how I tore it. I like to imagine it’s an old injury from my glory days on the varsity baseball team, but it’s probably the pedestrian result of an almost fifty-year-old guy having done something…

  • You Follow Me

    You Follow Me

    It all happened so fast. One day my wife expressed concern over my son’s sudden insatiable thirst. A week later and we’re in the emergency room receiving the diagnosis that he has Type 1 diabetes.  Just like that, I find myself annoyed by the misconceptions that other people have between Types 1 and 2. (No,…

  • To The Heights!

    To The Heights!

    Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized a Saint on September 7, 2025. He loved mountain climbing, regularly organizing trips into the mountains with his close friends, with occasions for prayer, liturgies, and conversations about faith on the way up to or down from the summit. After what would become his final climb, he wrote a…

  • Nothing Ordinary About Ordinary Time

    Nothing Ordinary About Ordinary Time

    Easter is over. Lent is long gone. Here we are, back in Ordinary Time.  I’ve been thinking about ordinariness lately.* In this age of blockbusters and viral sensations, we don’t hold being ordinary in high esteem. Even in our spiritual lives, it’s easy to think that seasons like Lent and Advent are where we make…