The universal urging of the heart is to find home and home is much more than the surface architecture of a house. It really is important to recognize that structures are needed but those structures are there in order to be safe and to provide shelter. So that home-building could happen once the house-building is done.

So says today’s podcast guest, Dr. Michael Horan, professor of religious education and pastoral theology at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), Los Angeles. Michael was a presenter and a collaborator at the National Symposium on Adolescent Catechesis.  He lead a session (this is the article referred to in the podcast) as well as a earlier work. 

Michael reminds us: Whatever it is that we are to do; a big vision will also quickly admit that there are many, many ways to reach that vision and the ways would be dependent upon the very people whom we seek to serve and with whom and for whom we minister.