When the World Shakes: Anchoring Your Soul in the Unchanging Goodness of God If you feel like the ground beneath you has been vibrating lately, you are not alone. As we close out 2025 and look toward 2026, the prevailing cultural mood isn't one of optimistic resolution—it’s one of low-grade anxiety. We see it in global instability, we feel it in the deep divisions fracturing major church denominations, and we experience it in the economic and personal pressures of daily life. The writer of Hebrews spoke of a time when God would "shake not only the earth but also the heavens," so that "what cannot be shaken may remain" (Hebrews 12:26-27). It feels like we are living through a great shaking right now. In times like these, the most difficult—yet most vital—question a Christian can ask is: Is God still good? The world’s answer is "no." The skeptic’s answer is "if He is, He isn't very competent." But the biblical answer is a resounding ...
“Life is going to give you a gutful of reasons to be angry kid, you only need one to be grateful.” If you would be able to have time and watch Prime Video anytime soon, I dare you to watch Father Stu, a film starring Mark Wahlberg as Father Stuart Long. I've seen it 3 times now for the past months and it has inspired me to be a better man. It has helped me to long and look for God and for life's meaning in today's world. God works in mysterious ways and he does qualify the called. It is only by God's grace that we achieve great and meaningful things in this life. To God be the glory. Please see the review below by my two favourite Franciscan friars.