Book
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Did you know that I wrote a book? Are you looking for a book of short daily reflections that you can read this Advent season? Did you plan to buy my book, but never got around to it? Have you bought my book, loved it, and want to share it with others? If any of
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We’re almost to the finish line – Abandoning Temples is just over two weeks from launch! This journey hasn’t been a solo one, by any means. Here’s a partial list of those without whom this never would have happened. I am grateful to them all. To April, my wife, best friend and partner in all
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In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation, not only of my home state of Florida, but a lot of the southeastern United States, I don’t have a lot to offer that ties what we’ve been through into a neat little bow. In fact, there’s a bit of a through line in the essays of Abandoning
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As we Floridians prepare for another hurricane, I’m reminded of this reflection I wrote back in 2022 after Hurricane Ian, which is also included in Abandoning Temples. May those of us who are spared the worst of this storm show compassion through action to those who aren’t so fortunate this time. I just finished Fr.
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Visual creativity is not my strength, but thanks to the designers at GetCovers, I have a cover for my book that I’m really happy with. Throughout this project, I played around with different ideas for a cover. I thought at first about an image of someone leaving a crumbling temple, but it’s hard to imagine
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I wrote Abandoning Temples because my friends encouraged me to write a book, and this is the book I had in me, apparently. Once I went through the trouble of writing and publishing a book, though, I realized that I’d really like people beyond my friends to buy it and read it. So I’m committed
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Abandoning Temples is kind of a mouthful for a title. When I started this project, what jumped out at me first were the idols that I’d put in God’s place – things like pride and control and purpose and relationships and distractions. My life was (and, let’s face it, is) out of whack when I
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People come before projects, and not just alphabetically. Abandoning Temples is really about learning to put things in the right order, which is ironic, because writing and publishing this book has required me to fight the temptation to put this project ahead of the people in my life. I am a “get stuff done” type
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Do you have a prayer and reflection space? Here’s mine, and it’s where Abandoning Temples was written.
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