I remember spending several weeks of the summer during my youth in Mobile, Alabama, visiting my Dad’s mom and family.  One particular summer, while writing a letter home, my Grandma Telhiard noticed that I was placing my face very close to the page of the letter that I was writing. …

“The tent, which was called the meeting tent, Moses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp.”  (EX 33:7-11).

Two particular camping events stand out in my memory right now; probably because of the inherent humor I find in them:

The first one involved a camping trip to Ft.…

Many times we refer to the extreme (untapped) possibilities in a given situation, or even in a particular person, as a “sleeping giant,” that once awakened could produce magnificent effects on the most grand scale.  The question always becomes, how do we awake this “sleeping giant?” …

If you were asked to name the greatest love story that you have ever heard, what would you say?  The stories across history, captured in oral traditions, the written word, and art provide countless and many times dramatic accounts of the power of love and its capacity to bring out the most joyful and also the most painful experiences that we as humans can have. …

When I was helping with the preparation for those interested in Catholicism, we used what we called a “journey stick” as a symbol for the group. The stick itself was actually the wood skeleton of a saguaro cactus. It was important because it symbolized the journey of each of us as we gathered together.…