May 2009
14 posts
Audio: Tanakh and YHWH →
I Pray The Rosary →
Show 36: Elijah Lives and Ahab Dies →
Show 35: Tanakh and the Personal name for God →
Article 18: Finding Your Ketchup
Sir Ken Robinson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga2CYYCrtNE) was in Omaha in the last couple of months promoting his book called, “The Element” (http://www.theelementbook.com). He talked about this incredibly important concept….of each person finding his or her ELEMENT. As in, yeah I am really in my element - defined by Robinson to mean that space where passion and competence...
Show 34: Elijah Verses the Prophets of Baal →
Show 33: The Story Behind the Immanuel Prophecy →
Article 17: Spiritual Lessons from Big Omaha
I am here at Big Omaha, a conference for tech startups and entrepreneurs. There is so much excitement about working to make cool stuff that changes the world…in some way.
GK Chesterton said that no man visits a brothel looking for something bad and I would argue that very few of these entrepreneurs are looking for something bad either.
Quite the opposite….they are looking for...
Article 16: John Wayne and St. Ignatius
I haven’t seen the movie in years, I’ve never heard it mentioned as one of John Wayne’s best, and heck maybe it isn’t good. But, as a little boy, my favorite John Wayne movie was the “Fighting Seabees”.
In the movie, John Wayne plays Wedge Donovan, a construction company owner that builds bridges for the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He eventually...
Show 32: The Story of Jonah →
Article 15: Can Catholics be Politicians?
From a Catholic position, would it ever be just, for instance, for America to bomb a target in order to kill a violent terrorist, knowing that there is a high probability of innocent civilian fatalities?
From a strictly Catholic position, no it would not be just to do this.
One can rationalize all they want about how doing so might save innocent American lives eventually or something like that. ...
Article 14: What Catholic Priests Can Learn from...
I played college football and played team sports all of my life. And the coaches who were most effective, not always the most liked, were those that called us players to action. The coaches who knew that we could do one more rep; or dig a little deeper; or sacrifice a little more. You didn’t always like those coaches; not at the moment, but they were always the ones that were most...
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Article 13: Mrs Incredible and Our Garden
Mrs Incredible is my wife Teresa. She really is an extraordinary woman and I am so blessed to have been fortunate enough to trick her into marrying me.
And trick is the only word that seems to make sense because all of my buddies constantly remind me that I married way, way beyond my league.
True enough, nevertheless, as I remind her all of the time, she gave her full consent in public, in a...