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Is God Watching?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2015-02-10)
I have been a slow-as-it-goes kind of jogger these past thirty-six years. While jogging along one gets in touch with lots of inner and outer things. For the first part of the run one notices easily the surroundings, sounds, ...
Centering
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2016-04-12)
I visited recently a family whose backyard was a snow-covered steep hill. A path had been molded so that a flat plastic sled could be sat in for a quite thrilling plunge for persons of any age and any degree of trust. I ...
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 ...
May I Have a Menu Please?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-10)
The seven members of our small community had to go out to dinner recently, because the automatic dishwasher, after twenty-five years, gave up the soapy ghost. Why didn't we just wash the dinner dishes by hand? We're not ...
Where's the There
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2015-08-11)
We had a bit of snow today and I trudged across our campus with my new boots, crunching new paths for later-ones to travel safely. Snow measured three inches. It did cause me an admiring reflection about Robert Peary's ...
Rejectionable
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2015-03-10)
Our campus here at Creighton University is safe and secured by many cameras and Public Safety personnel. Here's something I have observed in my many years at Creighton. Male students most often walk alone, unless accidentally ...
Shining a Light
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2015-11-10)
I live in what is known as, "a fly-over state". Many planes a day cross over what appears to be a quite flat and uninteresting area. Some flights do land at our airports, but actually most planes could land anywhere out ...
Happy New Ear
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2016-01-12)
Because we wish completion, wholeness and perfection, when we come to an end of something rather important we can experience a kind of sadness. These days everything has a syndrome. Termination syndrome can swoop upon us ...
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 ...
Consumerism
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2015-06-23)
Every month a statistic is published about how many durable goods have been produced that month. Other statistics indicate how many new houses have been constructed as well as how many tons of imported and exported goods ...