Finally Home – Parish Renewal

Finally Home – Parish Renewal

One Last Goodbye The last time I visited my grandparents’ house was right after they passed away. There’s no other place on earth more etched into my memory, since I lived there in my early teens and had visited so often the rest of my life before and after. Stepping...
Radical Holiness – Personal Renewal

Radical Holiness – Personal Renewal

It may make someone uncomfortable to say that a Christian is called to radical holiness. The shock would probably come when thinking of the modern sense of “radical” as some zealot on the fringe. It’s easy to interpret “radical holiness” as something strange and...
Hidden Treasures – Seeing Like Christ

Hidden Treasures – Seeing Like Christ

I know a great priest with an interesting hobby: restoring old, discarded brass items from various churches around town. He explained, “Most people look at these things and only see the tarnished mess, with the years of filth built up. But when I look at them, I see...