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It’s What God Wants

Three Points About Claiming God’s Will Determines the Outcome of Football Games

3 Mental Frameworks for Thinking About Our Collective Heartbreak

Like many of you, I expect, I’ve spent the last 14 hours wishing my Facebook feed was full of more proclamations of how chocolate makes everything better and less full of the news. Last night’s ambush of police officers…

Anger is Very Hungry

What celebrity chef Rachel Ray can teach us about feeding anger

Most Fr. Dad posts don’t start with Beyoncé.

But this weekend Beyoncé debuted her new album, Lemonade, in which she seems to allude to…

Finding the True Cross

“Daddy, where is the cross Jesus died on?”

My four-year old daughter had been tucked in, hugged and kissed goodnight, served her glass of water, and the lights had just been turned out. “Wait, daddy! I have a question.”

President or Paleontologist

Our choosing and God’s choice.

On the way home from school recently, my four-year-old daughter suddenly offered the following assessment of her future: “When I grow up, I’m going to be the president…or maybe a paleontologist. I…

“You Have to Forgive Me”

Spiritual Accounting Fraud

The other day I stepped out of the house for a moment to take out the trash. I returned to find both my older children in tears.

Keeping Our Tic-Tac-Toes From Getting Stepped On

Recently I became a tic-tac-toe god.

This elevation in ontological status happened when I volunteered for a short shift in my son’s kindergarten classroom to cover for the teacher while she did reading assessments. The…

Telling Chewy Stories

Something About God? Or a Story About God?

​The other night over family dinner, Stephanie and I were discussing some events that we should not have been discussing in front of Henry and Addie. Suffice it to say it was a grown-up story…

God Has Better Things to Care About

So Why Does God Care About the Little Things?

Scholars Unearth Joseph’s Letter to Santa

The unexpected and unwanted qualities of the first Christmas

After publishing the contents of the letter written to Santa by St. Joseph, father of Jesus Christ, the head of the research team…