A Dog’s Contemplative Wisdom It is morning in Indiana, dawning a new day of liberating nothingness, where we’ll gauge the day’s success through a holiday filter: by e...
Franciscan Media: A Necessary Film for Our Divided Age The path forward for us as a country is mapped out in the 2019 Netflix biographical drama The Two Popes—a film that creatively depicts th...
Franciscan Media: Star Wars and Christian Mysticism Over the last four decades many have tried to pin down the possible spiritual or religious origins of Star Wars. Often these attempts hav...
Franciscan Media: Surprised by Grace To be surprised by grace, as seasons blur together, as monotony defines our days, as boredom tests our worth, is to open our hearts to th...
Franciscan Media: The Only Way Forward On the brink of election season, it already feels like the tension in our country has reached a peak unparalleled in my lifetime. This pa...
A Sacred Reset Note: This blog is not an attempt to assign spiritual meaning amid a global pandemic but rather an attempt to uncover existing spiritual ...
Franciscan Media: A Time for Grace When I first started going on contemplative retreats, I remember how difficult it was to give myself grace in my journey inward. I was un...
The spiritual insight of Charlie Brown My dad has always loved Charles M. Schultz’s 1965 Christmas classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Growing up, he’d make our family watch it...
To Find, to Lose: to Create Thomas Merton once famously wrote in No Man Is an Island, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” For Rus...
Franciscan Media: The Guiding Light of Spiritual Doubt You’ve probably heard the phrase “Doubting Thomas.” The phrase’s origins hearken back to John’s Gospel, where, after Christ’s resurrectio...