"Love is the only answer, but medieval talk about love does nothing."

I’ve been sitting with those words from the mystic Thomas Merton, and they’ve hit me right where I live. If you’ve been with me for the last seven years, you know my creed: I am alive to love, and I believe all lesser values devolve easily into "BS"—that bait-and-switch that keeps us from the reality of how we are meant to live.

As we approach the final days of 2025, I’m feeling a fire in my heart to raise an alarm. The ancient, dusty discussions of love just don’t cut it anymore for the "wild and wooly" world we’re living in. Life is a beast; it shoves us around, and if we don't have a practical, radical reality of love to lean on, we get reckless.

We are closing out the year in the spirit of Advent—celebrating the silence. I want to help you build your own "fortress of solitude" where you can be hit by the radiant supremacy of God’s love, far away from the noise of the world.

Let's stop the ancient talk and start the new walk. Let’s rise and shine and go do something beautiful.

Advent invites us to celebrate the multiple paths of how Love is defined by this greatest of all stories in Christmas. “For God so loved the world…that He gives us His Son.” SO LOVED that He gave.

SO LOVED that the virgin Mary was visited by the angel of the Lord to announce that she had been chosen. SO LOVED that shepherds keeping watch over their flocks at night were serenaded by a choir of angels singing, “Good news, of great joy, which shall be to all people.” SO LOVED that the Magi/Kings of the east were drawn by a Star hovering over Bethlehem and the newborn King. SO LOVED that we have been given the greatest story ever told!

In this episode, I distinguish between the Advent season (the coming of Christ, His first coming) and the Christmas season, urging you to embrace the original revelation of Christ. I share reflections on the radical inclusivity of God's love, extending to "all people" from a humble peasant girl like Mary to the working-class shepherds and the mystical Magi (Wise Men). I also explore the power of the Lord's Prayer and the personal challenge of Love's Creed: “I am unavailable for anything less than love.”

I conclude with a call to end the "Christmas Wars" by leading with love and deference, choosing to say "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" based on a spirit of inclusion and kindness.

The power of love veritably floods the airwaves of our churches, radio, TV, and social media. The power of Love is shining in brilliant colors throughout our neighborhoods. The power of Love is delightfully celebrated in children’s Christmas programs in our schools and churches.

Let's do something beautiful this season. Ugly is getting done to death. Let's rise to the shining of love.

For six years now, this show has been a labor of love for me, a discussion of the pinnacle of life: Love, and love alone. It is the credible, supreme value for my entire religion.

Today, I’m diving deep into my topic: the transcendent supremacy of love. I'm convinced love is this power, this supreme, nuclear force that stands above all others. It’s what launches lives, families, and churches. Even if I deeply disagree with someone or find their behavior repugnant, I refuse to act in any way other than love. It is the ground of all existence—God is love, and love is God, and that's why everything was created!

Love is a force of nature, an unchanging founding principle. Just like gravity holds you down, or the sun's light travels across space, love is simply there. I don't have to decide if it will or won't be; I just have to decide whether I will join this existential reality.

I liken us to the Wright brothers and sisters of love. We're still launching our little paper airplanes into this incredible aerodynamic wonder. But just like they harnessed the laws of nature to fly, we are called to cooperate with the force of love, to throw our sail up to catch the wind. Love requires our participation. It takes intention, authenticity, and a purpose-filled mind to fully step into this supreme power.

In this tumultuous, fear-filled culture, let us be people who stretch our wings out into the laws of love’s aerodynamic beauty, flying above the hate and the vitriol. The laws of love are in existence, just waiting for our discovery. Let’s be present, be kind, and love more, love now.

Go into the world today and do something beautiful. May everyone we meet encounter love, and know that they’ve been breathing rare air when they’re around us.