One time I was out with another friar and somebody came up and, with a tone both quizzical and a little sarcastic, asked us, "what do y...

One of my favorite old jokes is, "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?" When the person asks how, you say, "I'll tell yo...

My novice master once said that he felt like I was always "waiting for the other shoe to drop." That is to say that my general exp...

There is a very good discussion going on over at Historical Christian . Check it out. The question is the specificity of God's will in d...

Last night I started to think about how to preach on Easter. To my surprise I felt a little bit of panic. But then I remembered something I...

Believe it or not, I'm still working through the Seven Deadly Sins . Joseph Epstein's Envy is a short and light treatment in a styl...

After morning prayer one of the brothers looked out the window and announced that the orange cat had been run over. He's one of our neig...