Essays and Literature

When God and the Church Let Us Down

God is who God is. The Church is who she is. And I am who I am. I will never fully understand God. The Church will always be flawed. And I will continue to struggle with my own demons, sin, and shortcomings until the day I die. Nevertheless, I have found this to be true as well: my faith and relationship with God has filled my heart with a peace that surpasses understanding, with joy I could not produce on my own, with love like no other, and with meaning and purpose in a chaotic world that sometimes seems bent on its own destruction.

• When God and the Church Let Us Down

  09/29/2023

Does God Care?

What Jesus’ raising of Lazarus says about God’s heart.

• Does God Care?

  09/14/2023

Pilgrimage

• Dont Give Up

• A Grounded Life

• Pilgrimage- El Camino 2006

Miscellaneous Topics

Here you will find a collection of stand-alone, individual essays on a wide variety of topics.

• Conversing in Post-Modern (Leadership)

  02/02/2008

• China Today (Asia)

  07/19/2008

• Knowing

  04/07/2009

• To Live or to Die? (Suffering, Love)

  01/17/2011

• Why Genocide Will Happen Again (France, Genocide)

  05/09/2011

• Good Happy? Bad Happy? (Tips for a Merrier Christmas)

  12/12/2013

• What I wish I had told my sons

  08/04/2015

Reflections from Chartres

This is a series of individual essays on the spiritual life that grow out of Tim’s personal reflections and experiences in Chartres, France.

• Chartres Cathedral—An amazing place to be on retreat! (1 of 6)

  05/25/2006

• Christ in Judgment—A window speaks a 1000 words--good words! (2 of 6)

  09/22/2008

• Staying on the Path—What the Chartres labyrinth is teaching me (3 of 6)

  09/28/2008

• Incredible Joy! Easter in Chartres. (4 of 6)

  04/15/2009

• Self-Confident or God-Confident? (5 of 6)

  10/19/2009

• Questions—Burning questions (6 of 6)

  04/18/2011