We talk to our children a lot about what they are going to be when they grow up. Not the career stuff… but the vocation stuff. For...

We all do it. We get to this point in Lent and we say to ourselves: this penance is actually a lot easier than I thought. And then you...

Today, I was looking back on the day that my son Caleb had his first haircut. No matter how often we bathed him, he looked like he was...

I was up several times throughout the night. The children calling “daddy” from different bedrooms will do that. But when the day begins...

In many ways, Lent is about finding out where our real loyalties lie. It is the season to test whether or not we belong to the city of...

When traveling, by far the most common question I get comes from parents of older children. “How do I reach them?” is how it’s often put...

The world is divided. Families are divided. Christians are divided. And into all of this, God has sent you. For a reason that only He and...

By far, one of the biggest shifts we can all make is a mental shift. When we look at our efforts in evangelization, we can get to the...

Meet the Host: A former Director of Faith Formation and Evangelization at his local parish, as well as former Director of Marriage and...

The way my other children were yelling, you would have thought that my one year old had lost an arm. But no. Arriving on the scene, I...

“Hey Dad, let me give you a squeeze,” someone said in a very silly voice.It was one of my teenage boys. “What? Why?” I asked, as I looked...

I had an interesting opportunity to work on some website development with a few friends of mine, and I have to tell you, I found the...

I don’t know when you last tried to wake up a teenage boy, but for me it is almost a daily occurrence. And what I have learned over the...

By now, I hope you have read the few articles that I have written on gaining confidence when evangelizing. In them, I speak about our...

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that we’re either addicted to noise or afraid of silence; perhaps both. And I am starting to believe...

It might seem like a strange thing to create a plan for evangelization, but as one who has been working in full time evangelization for...

In another one of my articles, I spoke about the need for any pastor or parish team to make small incremental changes when evangelizing....

For a few years now, I have lived on what many would call a “hobby farm.” Many different animal sounds can be heard from any window in...

It was evening in my house and I was sending the kids off to bed one by one. And much like every other family that I have ever...

“The Church exists to evangelize,” said Pope Paul VI in his landmark document, Evangelii Nutiandi back in 1975. But despite the emphasis...