James Nugent

Congratulations. You have completed a graduate program, and you have decided to serve the needs of students....

I went to learn more about Esperanto, a language that was invented 126 years ago....

This little booklet is an attempt to illuminate the Catholic Christian way of facing pain and transform it into a useful and productive time in life....

There is little practical information about how about how to go about the day to day business of being a Benedictine Oblate. This audiobook is an attempt to give practical suggestions....

The topic of this audiobook is volatile and people will often have deep emotional wounds related to these issues....

Writer's block has caused some people to actually quit their careers as writers....

In January 2014 I stumbled upon an announcement that the South Sound Estuary Association was looking for volunteer beach naturalist....

Then the economy turned on the middle and upper middle class. Then suddenly, it wasn’t possible to always find a job that provided a suitable amount of money to maintain our chosen lifestyle....

Someone might ask, "Why all the prayer?" I pray a minimum of 10 times a day because it is the right thing to do, and it does incredibly good things to me....

For a modern culture that does not highly value life, it is paradoxical that we don't want to talk about the dying process or the possibility of an afterlife....

There is too much intentional and mistaken misinformation in our present culture about the purposes and practices of modern Catholicism....

From time to time all of us have social conflicts. The goal is to not be controlled by the expectations of the other person and leave them at least with a little more knowledge about how to be happy....

For twenty years I searched for my perfect true love. I failed miserably until I asked God to help. Miracles do really happen....

When one is doing what God wants us to do; God will turn all our problems into positive events....

The Scripture said something like, “pray always.” It was a strange concept. How could a person pray all the minutes of the day? It was a bit of a mystery to me which I would not resolve for another 25 years....

In the still and cool hours before sunrise I have learned a few things about myself and God....

I was paddling hard with the wind and waves coming across my port bow....

Kayaking like most extreme sports is potentially fatal. The hazards are too numerous to list here. However, with proper instruction and equipment the hazards can be minimalized. This book is not meant to be any kind of instruction. It is only a general discussion....

I decided to write this short piece on the psychological healing aspects of the Sacrament of Confession, now called Reconciliation....

In the fall of 2014, a friend ended up being involuntary committed for a two-week stay in a mental health treatment center....