Franciscan Spirit

The word holiness can have a discouraging effect on people. Some immediately dismiss it, perhaps a bit sadly, since they believe that whatever it is, holiness is way beyond their reach.

This fall marks six years since my family and I sold our 27-acre organic farm and the house we had designed and built ourselves—the place my wife and I thought we’d call home our entire lives.

To understand what we are as Church, the Creed gives us four adjectives: one, holy, catholic, apostolic.

I love to write. Since I was a boy, paper and pencil have been on my list of favorite things.

I rise before the sun this morning to the smell of coffee in the kitchen. Another day in Eden awaits.

On the brink of election season, it already feels like the tension in our country has reached a peak unparalleled in my lifetime.