The butterfly has, across the centuries, one of the most enduring symbols of transformation. There are a number of stages that happen, but for the sake of brevity, let us limit them to: the caterpillar, the cocoon, the butterfly. What […]

Prayer is at the same time both an easy thing to explain as well as a difficult thing to explain. In some sense, it is so difficult because it is so very easy. What we have in the Bible there […]

“Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!  Behold, you were within and I was without; and there I sought you, plunging unformed as I was into the fair things that you […]

“Since once again, Lord – though this time not in the forests of the Aisle but in the steppes of Asia – I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar, I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the […]

Grace and Peace to you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth! For a while now, I have been settling into the idea that a mature Christian is someone that can “see God in all things and all things in […]

My name is John. I was born and raised on the southern shores of NJ. There isn’t really anything special about me that you should listen to me if I have never met you, HOWEVER, I believe there is something […]

Each year, I keep a tally of the books I read. It started years ago with my brother, Steve, when we both tried to read a book a week. Since then, I tend to get close to about a book […]

(Yes, I realize I published this a year late.) For a number of years now, I have challenged myself to try and read 52 books a year.  This year, I did not meet that goal.  And, I think that in […]

Hello Everyone!  Lets get it started! Below is a list of the books that I read in 2017.  These are in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author, not according to which books I thought were better […]