My heart was profoundly moved when I met Jim at a men's retreat not long ago. He had a ready smile and seemed about my age. He was never without his baseball cap for a reason I found out later. During the course of the retreat I had several conversations with Jim. He...
The call came unexpectedly in the morning announcing that my dad had hours to live. I was shocked. I had spoken to him on the phone the night before in the hospital. His voice was weak and somewhat strained due to a long battle with pancreatic cancer. But I had no...
In the past, Churches used to have graveyards nearby that parishioners walked by to get to the services. While a bit morbid for today's church culture, the practice did remind people of their mortality. I experienced something close to that recently by visiting a...