On The Faith, Hope, and Love of Military Service: A Soldier’s Reflection

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Press On: The Virtuous Power of Endurance

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Unwanted: Healing the Roots of our Sexual Brokenness

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The Many Faces of Manhood

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The Weapon of Thanksgiving: Living Eucharistically in Everyday Life

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An October Farm Retreat With Your Son

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11 hours ago in Cardinal Virtues, Holidays

On The Faith, Hope, and Love of Military Service: A Soldier’s Reflection

My time in service as an Army Officer is best characterized by three simple words. They are faith, hope, and love. Here when I use faith, I am not only referring to religious faith; though, that is one of the most important uses of the word. My faith in God is the starting point for everything I do, and also...

6 days ago in Courage, Uncategorized

Press On: The Virtuous Power of Endurance

"Endurance is the essence of courage. Endurance is not passivity, for it requires a strong, proactive spirit. In endurance, man's inmost and deepest strength reveals itself. It can be harder and entail greater courage for a soldier to be pinned down in a cold, damp foxhole than to charge into a hale of bullets, all flags flying." -Alexandre Havard Endurance enables...

2 weeks ago in Deadly Sins, Porn

Unwanted: Healing the Roots of our Sexual Brokenness

Have longed to be free of sexual sin? Have you found yourself confessing the same sexual sins over and over? Have you lost hope that you will ever be free from porn or other unwanted sexual behavior? Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jay Stringer, a psychotherapist and researcher who recently wrote a new book called Unwanted: How Sexual...

1 month ago in Masculinity, Virtue

The Many Faces of Manhood

Within contemporary culture, manhood has been placed in a box, and a quite small one at that. The only accepted version of a real man is one-dimensional: aggressive, musclebound, dangerous, and unfeeling. In saner times this was not so. There were many archetypes of manhood. The warrior. The poet. The philosopher. The king. While some exceptional men were all of the above,...

1 month ago in Uncategorized

The Weapon of Thanksgiving: Living Eucharistically in Everyday Life

Chesterton once said that "Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him...praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul." Truer words were never spoken. We are creatures made for thanksgiving. Praise is not one of a thousand potential modes of life---it is our fundamental vocation as human beings. In this talk,...

1 month ago in Uncategorized

An October Farm Retreat With Your Son

We started farming for the sake of my family, especially my sons. When we had our second son my wife asked, “Where do you see us in 5 years?” North Carolina in the Fall “On a farm,” I answered, “back home.” “Home” was North Carolina (we were living in Denver, CO), but the “farm” part we had not figured...

2 months ago in Suffering

Suffering and Strength

One of the most pernicious lies of the modernity is that we were made for comfort. Every day, thousands of advertisements and so-called experts promise us a life free from suffering and pain---if only we buy one more thing. Yet, the comfortable life they promise is an illusion. For all our advancements in science and technology, suffering is no further...

2 months ago in Fathers

The Gift of a Father’s Blessing

Scripture begins with the story of creation. God pours out his creativity and handiwork on the world, filling it with life and abundance. On the final day of creation, God creates mankind, made in his own image, as the culmination and the crown of his labors. God then admires his work, granting it the primordial blessing: "It is very good"...

2 months ago in Faith, Prayer, Suffering

Relics and the Gritty Faith of the Early Church

At the northern tip of Via Giulia in Rome, you’ll find the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini. The large dome that crowns this church is one of many that accent the Roman skyline. San Giovanni dei Fiorentini If it’s hot, airy churches like San Giovanni provide the weary pilgrim with a spiritual and physical oasis. Most likely, you’ll be...

2 months ago in Culture, Fathers

What Men Can Do to End Abortion

Men are frequently told that abortion is a women’s issue and therefore they should have no role in the issue. The argument follows that since men cannot get pregnant and have abortions, they cannot understand what a woman is going through and therefore they should have no voice. This argument is flawed because men are also affected by abortion and...

2 months ago in Priesthood

Grab your Pint Glasses, Buy a Priest a Beer Day is Coming!

Grab your pint glasses and phone your Fathers! This Sunday, September 9, is International Buy a Priest a Beer Day! On this festive day, faithful Catholics all over the world take their priests out for a beer and get to know them better. It’s a beautiful Catholic tradition that goes back to the time of St. Hopswald of Aleyard, the...

2 months ago in Uncategorized

There’s Good In This World. And It’s Worth Fighting For.

The reality of evil can be simply overwhelming. When it dawns upon us the extent to which evil has seemingly prevailed in the world and, yes, even in the Church, it can be tremendously disheartening. Nevertheless, I would argue that, despite appearances, there is more good in the Church and in the world than evil. Evil simply gets more attention. ...