Saint Francis of Assisi’s Prayer of Thanksgiving You are holy, Lord, the only God, and Your deeds are wonderful. You are strong. You are great. You are the Most High. You Read More
Why Saint Francis Renounced His Father, and Why We Care Even saints sin. Like most of us, they often sin with the best of intentions. Saint Francis of Assisi was no exception. There’s one Read More
A Franciscan Peacemaker’s Guide to Power and Possessions In our last post we talked about how conflicts over possessions are deceptively simple. However important material goods may seem, they’re rarely at Read More
A Franciscan Despises Possessions, but Withholds Judgment Saint Francis didn’t much like possessions. In fact, he disliked them so much he gave up all of his. Threw them all away so Read More
Seeing the Divine in the Other: Saint Francis and the Leper Saint Francis was terrified of lepers. Or at least he was before he became the saint we know so well. As a young man Read More
The Anatomy of a Conflict: Three Reasons People Fight with Each Other Conflict is inevitable. We can try to avoid it, but we can never eliminate it. Fortunately there is a way to manage conflicts and Read More
5 Reasons People Fail to Resolve Conflicts People ignore conflict for many reasons. In fact, there might be as many reasons as there are people. That being said, we’ve run into Read More
The Conflict Narrative: How to Tell Your Side of the Story It’s happened to many of us: We have a conflict; we’ve tried to resolve it; we’ve confronted the other party; we’ve talked to friends; Read More
What the World Needs The Crusades were raging. Christians were fighting their way to the Holy Land. Saint Francis of Assisi was also making his way across the Read More
Why Learn to Resolve Conflict? We get this question a lot. There’s a fairly simple answer: unresolved conflict ruins lives. When we look around we find families ruined, nations Read More
I Did Not Come to Bring Peace Are we to become peacemakers, or not? The reading for Mass today casts doubt on our project. Matthew 10:34 presents deeply disturbing words spoken Read More
Wisdom and Crafty Souls  … It is the worst Of errors to try to teach a crude ignorance; wisdom will never make It’s way into a crafty Read More