Homilies
Never Know the Time
When the hurricane Katrina hit the East coast of America and almost destroyed New Orleans and the people of that City, the homeless and the hungry started to try to rebuild their lives. There were some people in the US who maintained the City of New Orleans was nearly destroyed because it was an immoral City; they deserved what they got and they need to not rebuild that City to its formerMore...
Mountaintops and Valleys
You know life has a certain cycle but it sort of ebbs and flows in ways that are predictable but maybe not in such an easy manner to understand always. Like even in the middle of a day, there are good times and bad times; there is light and darkness in each day. And then in our seasons, who does not marvel that when spring time comes and we see those beautiful flowers start to appeaMore...
Get Real–God Loves Us
In her classic children’s story, “The Veleveteen Rabbit, Margaret Williams tells the story of a stuffed rabbit and the boy who received it as a Christmas gift. It is a wonderful story that shares our common experiences of our own human life. At first, the simple toy was snubbed by all the other, more expensive and sophisticated mechanical toys. They flaunted their complexity and regarded theMore...
Logotherapy
Victor Frankel was the protégé of Sigmund Freud when he was captured by the Nazis in World War II and shipped off to the prison forced labor camp. In this camp, people were forced to work in grueling conditions with little to no food or water and it became quickly a case of survival. Victor Frankel was fascinated to see that the first to die were actually the strongest and nMore...
Words. Words. Words.
In our modern world, we have so many words that come to us; we have words that come in volumes of books that take up libraries and bookstores; newsstands are full of magazines and newspapers for every particular type of interest you have ever imagined. And the words keep flowing. We have them in our air waves, through the radio stations and through the music they play and the wordsMore...
A Calling of a Different Sort
Several weeks ago you may have caught the headlines in the Sports section of the paper. It said, “A calling of a different sort.” The article went on to speak of a man who was the MVP of the Arizona Fall League, and had been playing in the baseball Minor Leagues with incredible success, getting no less than 30 home runs along with some other incredible statistics. He was beingMore...
It is Nice to Know: I Love You
The world-renowned play “The Fiddler on the Roof” is back in San Francisco theatre. It is a spectacular play if you have never seen it and well worth your time if you can see it. Many years ago, they made a movie out of it. There are several powerful themes in that play that speak to the human condition so poignantly, so strongly.More...
True Civilization
The world renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked the question about her work, “What was the first sign of civilization for me? Was it the axe-head? Or was it the arrowhead or was it a fish hook? Or maybe it was something more sophisticated like a musical instrument, or a colored ceramic bowl? More...
Schadenfreude
The musical “Avenue Q” is here in San Jose; it is a rather interesting musical if you have ever seen it but it is a rather unorthodox musical. While it is about Muppets, it is really not for children, I can assure you of that. But the story line goes pretty much like this —the young puppet, Nikki, a person just out of college, rents a house on this Avenue Q. The musical touchesMore...
Divinization Process
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