Chris Findley is a former Episcopal Priest who converted to the Catholic Church in 2007. He currently serves as Head of the Theology Department at Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, TN where he has taught Church History, Sacramental Theology and Scripture. Chris has written for national and international publications and various web resources. He is an occasional guest on Catholic radio and is available for speaking engagements, particularly on conversion and Scripture.
He is also an avid pilot holding Commercial, Instrument, Multi-Engine, and Flight Instructor ratings. He is the founder of myFlightCoach.com, an online educational service for pilots seeking beginning or recurrent training. He and his wife Sheryl live in Nashville with their two sons Aidan and Evan.
They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” John 12:21 (NAB, Revised) There’s something about this simple request from these Greeks to Philip, something disarming about the phrasing and about the request itself. They don’t demand or coerce or manipulate. Surely they realized, [...]
Let me be honest, generally I strongly dislike “churchy” sayings and bumper-sticker Christianity. It is true that clichés and sound bytes often carry a kernel of truth, but they are often packaged in trite sayings that regularly ignore the larger Truth. Recently I heard the oft-quoted saying that, “The Church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum of saints.” [...]
In Luke’s Gospel Jesus illustrates the love of the Father for his people. He does this through a story, a parable that is often called, “The Parable of the Lost Sheep”. In this parable, Jesus tells the story of a man who has a hundred sheep in his flock. He discovers that one of the [...]
When I was growing up my mom used to have a cartoon on the refrigerator. It showed a guy in a boat, looking rather lost and bewildered. It said, “If God feels distant, who moved?” There’s part of that cartoon that is very clever and it’s not the caption. It’s the fact that the man [...]
The other day at Mass I saw something that really spoke to my heart. It was simple, so simple that I almost missed it. As we were waiting for our time to go up to receive the Sacrament, I was watching the people rise and file out of their pews. It was then that I [...]
Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” The woman had suffered so much. Outcast. Shunned. Hurting. Bleeding. She had exhausted her savings in her attempts to find a cure. Treatments had been rough; she had suffered under her doctors and yet [...]
One of the hallmarks of our society is our constant pursuit of the “new”. From cell phones to cars to clothes we are encouraged to discard the old and embrace the new. Of course this also goes for theology and ideology as well. As a result, modern society has a very uneasy relationship with history. [...]
The other day I went to McDonalds with my boys. Since we all were hungry I ordered a meal for them and one for me. Then came the question that we all have grown so used to hearing- “Would you like to supersize that?” Not just “Would you like a large order?” Not even “Would [...]
A story is told that, several centuries ago, a Japanese emperor commissioned an artist to paint a bird. A number of months passed, then several years, and still no painting was brought to the palace. Finally the emperor became so exasperated that he went to the artist’s home to demand an explanation. Instead of making [...]
Yesterday we entered into Advent, the beginning of the liturgical year. What is interesting about Advent is how it doesn’t begin. We don’t begin with an event, but with an attitude. It is a call by Jesus to a particular spiritual posture. We do not begin our year with any of the great events of [...]
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