David Mills tells the story of a friend of his who is very intentional about walking around a new city in order to soak it all in — the sights and sounds and smells. He doesn’t use a map or GPS to
Christians talk all the time about how God is their friend, columnist David Mills writes, “but ‘friend’ seemed just a way of saying ‘he loves you.’ Nice, but vague. … One of the great privileges of friendship is hanging out together without
Today we live in a culture with sharp edges and sharper opinions. It seems we or those around us are always in attack mode, more likely to offer criticism than we are help or praise. David Mills offers two ways Christians can
Columnist David Mills explores two realities of ourselves that come into better focus during the Easter season. The first is that we’re sinners who sent Jesus to the cross on Good Friday. The second, however, is that Christ loves us so much
Columnist David Mills writes about the need to be honest — with yourself and with God — in our prayer lives. Try as we might, we cannot trick God into believing we’re someone we aren’t by presenting to him an ideal version
Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills examines from a different perspective the passage in Scripture where Christ asks his followers to “take up your cross and follow me.” Mills asks, sincerely: What if the cross you’ve been given wasn’t accepted by choice?
Columnist David Mills explores a topic that most of us are all too familiar with: We live in an unfair world, where it seems those who work hard and try to do good are punished, while those who live and work unvirtuously
Columnist David Mills explores why Catholics — even Catholics of goodwill — can argue themselves in circles over topics that are multi-layered. To help explain this, Mills looks to the 20th-century theologian Friedrich von Hügel, who divided minds into two types: “There’s
Columnist David Mills tells the story about a time he was distracted by a man talking loudly behind him throughout Mass: “When I told friends about the man behind us at Mass, everyone sympathized. Most people had the same experience. And many
Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills tells the story about a time he was at his local gathering place to watch a football game when he got an unusual feeling that he should leave the bar and head home. When he arrived,