Blessed are you..
Fr. Bob’s homily today at Mt. Irenaeus focused in large part on today’s gospel reading. He pointed out something in Luke’s Gospel that I had never heard or seen and it makes a significant difference in my reading and hearing…
Video games help kids learn
Last Thursday I flew to Chicago with a couple of educators to attend the Macarthur Foundation sponsored event at Newberry Library in Chicago entitled, “Do Video Games Help Kids Learn?”. I’m glad I was able to attend. We were surrounded…
Audacity of Hope
I’ve been watching Senator Barack Obama announce his candidacy for the presidency. I don’t know much about him, but I am encouraged by his positive vision. Yesterday as I waited to board my flight home at O’Hare Airport in Chicago…
Word for the Day
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.–St. Francis of Assisi
Love your neighbor
Many years ago when I was in London, I walked into a bookshop and saw a book entitled My Mother, Myself. This is an intelligent title. Your mother, yourself. You can write another book, My Daughter, Myself. Or My Son,…
Peace and Justice Take Courage
This week the President has proposed a budget that is nearly 3 trillion dollars. Much of it is for war. Included in that budget is over 100 billion in cuts to Medicare and other vital services to our elderly. Call,…
Do Video Games Help Kids Learn?
I’m taking a trip along with a couple of other adventuresome educators this week. We’re going to Chicago to participate in Chicago, Illinois at the Newberry Library to attend a panel discussion, “Do Video Games Help Kids Learn?” The event…
Need toner?
I just got an email from a great source of ink & toner. If you are in the market to purchase printer supplies and want to help a contemplative community in the process, I recommend LaserMonks. Technorati Tags: ink toner…
I often wonder
I’m inclined to self-criticism and I am concerned that my postings are too strident at times. I feel everything very deeply. I’m a very sensitive if not sensible person. Yesterday at work I was speaking with a grandmother of one…
Ecumenical Advocacy Days
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer This week I received a mailing from the Holy Name Province of Franciscan Friars. The letter came from the Office of Justice, Peace…