History, Real Life and Faith
The fear of flying is a common phobia. I struggled with it for years. It wasn’t helped by Christian urban legends about devout folks who suddenly had a premonition the flight they were sitting on would go down. According to the stories, they then managed to talk their way off the plane, including their luggage, and were amazed when the flight…
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How can you tell if God wants you to take a trip? My fear of flying has finally been grounded but I still run through a gamut of emotions when it comes time to plan a trip. I’ve frequently allowed my love of travel–it’s genetic for my family–to get ahead of my prayer life and I’ve volunteered to take a…
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How can you tell if God wants you to take a trip? My fear of flying has finally been grounded but I still run through a gamut of emotions when it comes time to plan a trip. I’ve frequently allowed my love of travel–it’s genetic for my family–to get ahead of my prayer life and I’ve volunteered to take a…
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My children grew up reading the Tintin books. We all liked him. I first glimpsed Tintin while traveling in Europe as a teenager. We didn’t have money for books nor did I read French, so I didn’t meet the intrepid newspaper reporter in 1970. It took three sons to bring him to my attention. My oldest son found the books in the…
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My children grew up reading the Tintin books. We all liked him. I first glimpsed Tintin while traveling in Europe as a teenager. We didn’t have money for books nor did I read French, so I didn’t meet the intrepid newspaper reporter in 1970. It took three sons to bring him to my attention. My oldest son found the books in the…
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I grew up in a secular family for whom Christmas was an event featuring a holiday scene across the mantlepiece, a tree hauled into the house on my father’s birthday and Coke in the stocking found leaning across the hearth Christmas morning. When we got older, we attended a perfunctory mass on Christmas Eve, joined a big party at a…
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