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What humans can learn from grapes about life
A few years back I lived just outside Florence, Italy in the Chianti region of Italy where the famous Chianti wines are made. One day I was walking along a trail next to a vineyard when I came upon an elderly…
What I learned in prison about God’s love
A few months ago I posted on Facebook a letter I received from a man serving life in prison for first degree murder. He expressed gratitude to me that my books had helped him through his darkest and most hopeless…
Crucifying Santa (Or how I found Christmas where there was no Christmas)
Some years ago I read in the New York Times of a strange East-meets-West phenomenon. The Japanese had discovered Christmas and, no doubt aided by enterprising retailers, taken the season to heart. Aware that the holiday has something to do with…
Are the dying visited by the dead?
Sitting on the bed next to my grandmother as she lay dying, I witnessed a curious thing. Earlier that day, hospice had put my grandmother on a morphine drip and ever since I had arrived she had seemed unaware of her…
Have you ever had a spiritual vision?
There are two men at a BYU – Notre Dame football game. One man said to the other, “Could you please sit down, you’re blocking my vision.” The other man replied, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were having one.” Do…
Stop Whining that Christmas is too Commercial
When I read the title of this blog to my immensely rational wife, she gave me that look–the one that says, “Are you completely insane?” To which I silently replied, No, honey. Not completely. But as The New York Times has…
My Daughter, Bono and the power of Gratitude
“I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” my daughter Jenna once told me. She meant it. I don’t think it’s so much that Jenna has a great life–which she would be the first to tell you that she does–but the…
The boy who dared to be great.
I had a somewhat traumatic childhood, but 1970, the year I turned eight, was especially difficult. A Tsunami of misfortune hit my family. My father lost his job and couldn't find work and my mother began to exhibit the first signs…