If Swift-Tuttle were to collide with the earth, the result would be massive extinctions, but a smaller object with similar properties, exploding over the Pacific Ocean, would produce effects in Europe and the Middle East that approximated the description in Revelation 6.
Einsiedeln Abbey Church: Baroque Survivor of the Reformation
This heavily decorated church is a rare survivor of the iconoclasm of Huldrych Zwingli’s Swiss Reformation.
How do you Build Peace in the World?
People dump on each other, or jump on each other in small ways, and over time it builds up. If those builds up go unexamined, and uncared for, violent outbursts can be the result. At an extreme level, people rape, torture, blow up things, and kill each other.
A Map of Guidance
Maps are guides that take us not only from point A to point B and back again, but can bring us to places far beyond our perspective of what may lie ahead.
Life Review: Discovering Your Own Story
When I read my first “story” to the rest of my small group on the first day of Life Review, I was stunned at the difference between writing something about myself and “putting it out there” by reading or “telling” the story to a small group of trusted people.
The World is Burning
I’ve found it painful to read the news these past few years. Disasters, scandals, the hatred seeping from the headlines was more than I thought I could bear.
UNL Students Form Bonds with Achuar Children
“Welcome to Ecuador,” I announced to 11 people as they walked through the door of the customs area in the Quito airport. For several years, I have been asked if I would ever lead a trip abroad. This idea has held limited appeal; I like the freedom to move.
A Journey to Spirit #1: Believe
It is counted as one of my miracles. Mom’s gentle dream, the one she recounted that morning would catapult me toward my own revelation. But on that day, I also sensed it meant she was about to leave us, never to return again.
Slap-Stick Education
If my father were alive to today and read this account of my “education” under the care of the Christian Brothers, he would most likely say, “Good discipline in those days if you ask me. Anyway, you survived, didn’t you?”
The Catholic Church and Homosexuality: “Who Am I to Judge?”
While a recent article by a Jesuit intellectual makes a valiant attempt to open the door for a more conciliatory approach in the Church’s dealing with LGBTQ people, in the end it misses the mark.
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