The Grandest of Adventures

The Grandest of Adventures

A few summers ago, I had the great privilege (and I do intend to use the word “privilege”) to spend some weeks in Paris with my wife and daughter, and then a couple of weeks trekking with my youngest son through the Picos de Europa mountains in northern Spain. It was...
A new book!

A new book!

I am very excited to announce my new book, Landscapes of Grace: Hiking, Faith and Finding Yourself in the Wild. The work is currently in the final stages of editing and should be available everywhere before the beginning of summer. I wrote, or outlined, most of...
Rejoice!

Rejoice!

In the lead-up to Easter, 2026, organizations and news agencies around the country are reporting a surge in the number of people joining the Catholic Church. From religious publications like the National Catholic Register to the thoroughly secular New York Times,...
A place of greater safety

A place of greater safety

Compared to some, I spend a lot of time tramping around outside and sleeping on the ground in a thin, nylon tent. When I factor my age into this comparison, I am now comfortably in my sixties, I suspect that relative to all people my age, I spend a lot of time...
Own your voice

Own your voice

Three years ago, I wrote a short piece about the coming AI disruption. I predicted that distant companies would use AI to probe each of us (and yeah, if “probe” makes you think of the unpleasantries of alien abduction – good) to craft personalized and persuasive ad...