We were staying with friends at an Airbnb in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania recently. It was a great weekend catching up with friends. We spent the weekend enjoying good food, deep conversations, board games, and time outside enjoying nature. …

We have suffered a great loss and our university is reeling with grief. As was announced yesterday, Frank Csorba, an undergraduate alumnus in criminology and graduate student in the master of public health program, passed away.  Frank entered this world…

Last week, I climbed to the top of the Washington National Cathedral. I was unaware how tall the second tallest church building in the U.S. truly was until I was standing at the top of it. No one had warned…

Earlier this week after dinner, my son randomly came up to my wife and me to share his new motto. He said he’d been thinking about things and the motto kept popping up in his head. His new motto, he…

Over winter break my family and I took a quick last minute and somewhat unplanned trip up to Washington, DC. We thought it would be fun to take our young boys to a handful of museums and to see some…

As this year draws to a close, may you give thanks for the gifts that it brought, the struggles you overcame, the joys you celebrated, and the wonders you saw. As the inevitable rush of the holiday season approaches, may…

This past Sunday evening, the first ever large-scale Diwali celebration on our campus occurred.  Diwali, or Thibar as it is known in Nepal, is the Hindu Festival of Lights, which honors the victory of light over darkness, good over evil,…

I was reading the book Cracking the Walnut by Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn, in which he shares the story of getting a letter from a German Christian priest. In this letter the priest spoke about his Christian journey and…

When I saw the news headlines this weekend about another war and a tally that included over a thousand individuals who have been killed, my heart sank. I learned of this event after I had spent a wonderful day with…

During my senior year of college I had some freedom in my schedule to take a sculpting class in the art department. One of our big assignments was to sculpt a self portrait out of clay.  At each of our…