Last week, I wrote a column about what matters in life, what fills a life with wholeness and goodness. I quoted at length a piece written by Michael Josephson, the […]

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about what makes life good, rich, healthy, and whole. I quoted Jean Vanier’s reflections about relationship making life worthwhile. Last week, I […]

Last week, I wrote about a reflection by Jean Vanier about what makes life worth living. His deep focus was on the power of relationship to make life whole and […]

Someone recently sent me a beautiful video of Jean Vanier reflecting about what is important in making life more human. Now 90 years old, Vanier has a lifetime’s worth of […]

One of the decorations I collect for this time of year is the crèche—a rough stable, with Mary and Joseph gazing at their newborn son laid in a manger, attended […]

We’re in the middle of that great orgy of consumerism again. It’s the great religious festival of the year for North America. Malls and stores are decked out in their […]

I’ve written about a practice called Alternative Giving, but it’s important enough for me to repeat some of my comments. That’s especially true at this time of year, when we […]

I am revisiting this column which I wrote several years ago because it fits in with what I’ve been writing in the past few weeks. One of the things we […]

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about a different vision of the gospel. When you ask most Christians in North America these days why they are Christian, […]

Last week I wrote that the gospel was not about “Jesus dying for my sins”. Jesus and Paul, and the rest of the New Testament authors, proclaim that the gospel […]