The God of Flesh and Blood

Encountering God in my humanity Last weekend I went to Camp DeWolfe for the Listening to God Retreat. Pulling up to Benson House was like a homecoming. Two years ago, I served as the Christian Formation director and spent the summer tucked away in the houses’ warm red...

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Whatever you experienced in 2015 – the good, the bad and the ugly – are now all but shadows of the mind and memory – to be left at the feet of Jesus. What a sweet thing to be able to offer up a year of thanksgiving and worship God for...

Journeys of Faith

This past Tuesday, our chaplain of the week, Fr. Larry Byrne, his wife Susan, and I created a simple labyrinth in the back of St. Luke’s Chapel. Using candles, yarn, and duct tape, we designed a space for campers that evening to pray and reflect while walking...

The Holy Spirit – Our Advocate

During our first Christian Formation time on Sunday night, I asked campers to sit in a giant circle and go around saying one thing they wanted everyone to know about them. The point was to show we come from a variety of backgrounds (something worth celebrating!), and,...

Servant Leadership

So Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your...