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My story about Villanova Men’s Basketball Team winning the NCAA Tournament on April 4, 2016

NOTE: This is story from our fellow Knight of Columbus brother Dennis Corcoran: I decided to switch gears for this month’s column and share with you the Villanova Men’s Basketball Team winning the NCAA Tournament on April 4, 2016. One reason for this is that I not only went to Villanova, but I was the manager ofContinue reading “My story about Villanova Men’s Basketball Team winning the NCAA Tournament on April 4, 2016”

Proliferate or Wilt?

  Most of us have heard the expression, ‘You are what you eat’. Consumption helps us understand Mark 4: 4-8: ‘Listen! Imagine a sower going out to sow. Now it happened that, as he sowed, some of the seed fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate it up. SomeContinue reading “Proliferate or Wilt?”

Fear and Hate – They are Both Wise

Psalm 111:10 says, ‘The fear of the Lord in the beginning of wisdom.’ Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10 say the identical thing. Three times God tells us that we begin to get wise when we begin to fear Him. If the first of the 10 Commandments is to love God with all of our heart, mind,Continue reading “Fear and Hate – They are Both Wise”

A Lesson Through Character and Charity

In an article by Jason Godin, associate editor of Fathers for Good, an initiative for Men by the Knights of Columbus, Godin talks about Oscar winning actor, Henry Fonda: The 1968 film “Yours, Mine and Ours,” stars Henry Fonda as Frank Beardsley, a U.S. naval officer and widower with 10 children who marries another widowerContinue reading “A Lesson Through Character and Charity”

Would Jesus Hire You for a Management Job?

Douglas McGregor published a book in 1960, now a classic, titled The Human Side of Enterprise. In it he identified two different beliefs we all have about human behavior to some degree: X – The belief that people dislike work and must be forced to perform Y – The belief that people enjoy learning andContinue reading “Would Jesus Hire You for a Management Job?”