A friendly conversation about church, religion, spirituality, life, family, and travel in the twenty first century. Please feel free to join our conversation in a kind and civil manner!
0 By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The recent death of Russell M. Nelson—the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—brings to mind again his historic 2019 meeting with Pope…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Nearly a decade after Northern Utah’s beloved Trappist monastery—Holy Trinity Abbey in Huntsville—closed in 2017, there’s only one monk from there still living in Utah. One…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A Vermont wedding, a Niagara Falls honeymoon, and a Utah divorce. What could it all mean? That’s what I was hoping to figure out about my…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Two people I know walked the Camino de Santiago this year. The Camino includes centuries-old (and very long) pathways leading to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Growing up Irish-Catholic in Latter-day Saint Utah, I could never imagine that my longitude and latitude would even register on any map made in Ireland. Then…