January 2022

Prayer changes things, mainly you. Most problems look psychological and are spiritual in their solution. Performance Christianity tries to make God owe us. Jung: second-half-of-life illness is often lost religion.

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February 2022

Are you a performance Christian? Religious acts are good if they praise God, not if they subtly control Him. The only me God can love is the real me.

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April (Spring) 2022

Churches divorcing churches: tens of thousands of denominations. Jeff Cavins studied his way back to the Catholic Church. Kids leave because they do not understand the faith; capture the heart and the head will follow. Easter: nothing lives long term without dying in its present form.

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June 2022

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July 2022

Telling is not training, and more documents will not rescue belief in the Eucharist. Cursillo and the charismatic renewal did, because they gave an encounter. Merton: society depends on interior solitude. Cafeteria Christians pick what they will eat.

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August 2022

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September 2022

A father auctions everything except the portrait of his son, who died rescuing another. Jesus to Peter in The Chosen: “Get used to different.” Chesterton: Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has never truly been tried.

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October 2022

All Hallows’ Eve: don’t be fooled by the mask I wear. The dream me — Alexander — is a gas even God cannot love; centering prayer keeps the real me honest. The law of spiritual physics: the weaker often pulls the stronger down.

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November 2022

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December 2022

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