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It's On!
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-09-02)
I attended a speech recently and the presenter, several times, failed to clear his throat from some congestion and kept talking. I noticed I felt myself clearing my throat and I heard several throats being cleared in ...
Farm Stand
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-12-02)
"Are we there yet?" is an ancient complaint/question most parents have endured more than a few times. Eventually, in my family of origin, there were six potential complainers. Each August all eight of us headed to northern ...
Making Waves 2
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-03)
There is the catchy statement, "Keep your eye on the prize." I guess everybody has a prize up ahead. Here at Creighton University the prize might be grades, guys/girls, graduation, grad-school, getting out of school all ...
Hands and Faces
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-12)
A natural physical response to making a mistake or in other ways looking foolish or humiliated is to cover our countenance with our hands. This would literally be a "face-saving" device. Shame is losing face or in some way ...
Statistics Class
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-13)
It is normal to want to know how we're doing. We often ask people in greeting just how they are doing. They normally do not give you anything but a standard flat answer of being "pretty good" or "could do better", or a ...
Being Noble
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-11-11)
In the history of the human experience of being governed the most usual form has been Royal Dominion, which is a king or queen having sway over their subjects. Nobility was the form, but not always the substance including ...
Ratatouille
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-24)
One definition of a human is "Homo ludens", that is "beings who are playing". Chaucer wrote about a group of pilgrims who while walking along had to play by competitively telling funny or serious stories about each other. ...
First Words
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-09-23)
At last Sunday's liturgy, during the quiet after the distribution of the Eucharist, a quite upset little fellow began shouting, with certainty, "No!-no!" He kept chanting this familiar word with greater sincerity and ...
Who Am I?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-11-25)
Let me throw something at you. "Jection" is not really a word; it needs some help such as a preposition to precede it. "Sub" "pro", "de","re", and "ob", all assist to form definite meanings. Subjection is literally to ...
Caramel Corn
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-07-01)
In our small community lives a dog, usually quite hungry and constantly searching for satisfaction. We pour his tasty, (only to him) food marbles into his dish twice a day. At the evening feeding, we drop in just a few ...