Sin is turning a gift into a possession. Food Money Sex Time People Success All these things are gifts from God. They are good. When we make them possessions rather than gifts, we sin. When we accept them as gifts from God and treat them as gifts for others, we grow in greater unity with…
Archives for March 2018
Three Days Between Good Friday and Easter Sunday?
On what day did Jesus die and rise again? In the Creed we say that “on the third day [Jesus] rose again,” but if Jesus died on a Friday and rose on a Sunday, isn’t that just two days? In this video I explain the math behind the Resurrection and why St. Paul and even…
How I Built an Email List of 40,000 Subscribers
Yesterday, The Religion Teacher email list passed the 40,000 subscriber mark. It is hard to believe that many people sign up to get emails from me or that there have been almost 60,000 people total who have signed up if you count those that unsubscribed. Here are a few of the things that helped the…
The Character Question: What do they want and why?
In an interview with James Altucher, bestselling author Brad Meltzer points out that the plot isn’t what captures the reader’s attention (or the author’s attention for that matter). What really counts is the motivation of the character. That’s what people care about. Meltzer asks himself about each character: What does my character want? Why? If…
The Smallest Possible Task
The second to last item on my Daily Review checklist was to “organize your desk,” which includes the very large stack of papers in my Inbox. My Inbox, inspired of course by David Allen’s book Getting Things Done, is where all of my incoming papers go so that I can process them and decide what…
