Author: Rev. Tim Yanni

               When I was a kid, I always wanted to be “the best”. If I wasn’t the best at something, then I didn’t want to do it at all. I wanted to score better than all of my classmates on

               Around this time of year, it always feels like there’s a lot of “looking ahead” going on. Students are completing their academic years and they are looking ahead to whatever comes next. If they are graduates, then they are

               When I was a kid, my family’s “love language” was food. As Italian-Americans, food was a focal point for our gatherings. Italian food—pizzas, pastas, breads, etc.—tend to have a lot of calories and carbohydrates. And Italian foods were our

               Back in the 1990s, a children’s television program took the United States by storm. Barney, a big, purple tyrannosaurs rex, won over the hearts of toddlers across the country. In his television program, Barney & Friends, Barney sang, danced,

               Have you ever noticed that priests and other members of the clergy traditionally wear black clothing? In the old days, it was actually quite common to see a priest walking around town wearing a long black robe called a

               At this point in our pastoral relationship, you’re probably not surprised to hear this: I’m a bit of a rule breaker. I enjoy having fun with the rules and I enjoy pushing boundaries a little bit. Not because I’m

               At the very moment I’m writing this, the state of Arizona was supposed to be taking Aaron Gunches from a surveillance cell at Florence Prison into a different room. In that second room, he was scheduled to be strapped