Todd Thomas

This document has daily prayers in response to the eight executive functions: Self-Monitoring, Flexible Thinking, Emotional Control, Impulse Control, Organization, Working Memory, Planning & Prioritizing, Task Initiation. As a Priest and a Spiritual Director I have a bit of experience with prayer, but I’m not a neuroscience specialist and I have limited understanding and academic experience with the executive functions. This work is an effort to faithfully pray and to honor God in the work...

Next Monday is our annual holiday celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As we approach the day I've been thinking about some of the amazing contributions he made to our civil discourse and practical Christian theology. His book Strength to Love is one of my goto books when studying deeper on love, forgiveness and grace. I believe that prayer is an important exercise in developing what Dr. King called a "capacity to forgive" in Strength to Love. As I was thinking of Dr. King I...

I'm sharing my sermon notes from the first Sunday of Advent, November 30th, 2025, and the meaning of this season. The Gospel text for the day was Matthew 24:36-44 - Jesus said “But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and...