Category: Engagement
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Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
In this blog, I am charged with keeping the main thing, the main thing, as are my guest bloggers. We reflect quite frequently on the process of conversation, everyday spirituality, and a stewardship way of life. There are many books and articles out there about parish engagement, rebuilding community, and creating a dynamic faith environment. But we […]
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Everyday Stewardship / Tummies Full of Love
When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food […]
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Grateful for the Community of Faith
I spent five years in Alaska as a missionary prior to becoming Catholic. Four years of that was in a little town south of Anchorage with a strong bohemian population. As the town pastor, I got to know many of those good people. More than a few were devotees of The Grateful Dead, a band […]
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Shopping Frenzy
The Internet is buzzing loudly today with sales at Amazon and Wal-Mart! Now, other online merchants like Target and Best Buy are creating other artificial shopping holidays for next week. Everywhere online you see the term Christmas in July to describe the frenzy of sales and shopping. But at least with Amazon, shoppers do not […]
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Everyday Stewardship / A Living Witness
He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to […]
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Going Home
After 10 days, today I am headed home. I travel quite a bit, but normally the trips are shorter. This one took me from Seattle to Orlando. As planes flew over the continental United States, there were a whole lotta people on the ground. It really is amazing to think about: all those people, each […]
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Extending the Catholic Community
Recently an article I wrote was the lead article for LPI’s CONNECT product. It spoke to the value of extending one’s experience of church by creating a community of businesses that are worthy of patronage, not just because they support your church by taking out an ad in your Sunday bulletin, but because they are […]
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
This week, I was watching a movie that seriously questioned the integrity of a woman’s boyfriend. Early in the story two young women read a newspaper profile of an unknown suspect that included a police sketch. One of the women said to the other that the sketch looked like the first’s boyfriend. He had in […]
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Everyday Stewardship / Feast of Body and Blood of Jesus Christ (Corpus Christi)
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which […]
Tracy Earl Welliver 