Every time I ask, or just simply think about a 24-hour prayer house for my campus, I receive the same answer from God: “Wait for me.” Knowing that my waiting could range anywhere from days to years, I’ve stayed motivated…

I Am Freed From A diverse group of nine students huddled together last Friday night, sprawled out with hands extended over an old map, heads bowed and singing freedom. We laid and sat, circled around a laminated campus map of…

I remember helping my dad build our swing set when I was a child. He handed me a hammer, and showed me how to pound, pound, pound a nail into a piece of wood while he looked on, guiding my…

Well, the skulls have been put away for another year.  Each year at the beginning of November, our Latino/a community at St. Edward’s University erects their altar in our Chapel commemorating Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. …

Forward Thinking Even now seniors are being asked to predict the future with a precise certainty that would raise anxiety levels of even the most tranquil person. With last summer closer than is the coming summer, students are already asked…

One spring day in 2013 at The University of Texas at Austin, freshman business majors Tim Nelson and Chris Uhlig were hanging out, sharing thoughts about their first year of college. At one point in the conversation, they both realized…

For those of us in the Roman Catholic tradition, we have heard the Church speak quite a bit about a new push in Catholicism, “The New Evangelization.”  The word “evangelization” is somewhat new to Catholic circles.  Not the concept or…

I miss neighborhood churches.  I know, I know.  In today’s world it’s not likely that we’ll ever go back to the liturgical tradition of parishes, but I am encouraged by some of the newer churches being planted to reach a…

Seeker-Friendly When I was 22, I took my first job leading worship for a church.  It was 2007, and the church for which I worked had spent the past five or six years operating in a model they had adopted…

“For nearly a hundred years the Church in America observed a day of united prayer for God to awaken and revive our colleges. At a time when the spiritual needs of our nation and world are so great, and so…

A few years back I took my family to Home Depot to buy some materials for a side project we were doing for the house.  I remember clearly, that it was a typical hot and Austin day.  As a matter…

Today’s blizzard reminds me of wintery days at Cornell where the trek over the river and through the woods to class would require I bring two extra changes of clothes: one for if the temperature dropped and another for if…