Spirituality In Everyday Life
Norris Burkes
As a military and hospital chaplain, I routinely observe the stories of faith in the everyday lives of real people. My site tells those faith stories in a humorous, hope-filled, and honest way. I believe you will find them inspiring and potentially life-changing. Most of all, I believe the insight within these stories will connect with your story in a meaningful way. Enjoy!
Thriving Beyond Surviving
As a hospital and military Chaplain Norris Burkes has seen things he must never tell. Yet as a syndicated columnist in 38 secular newspapers around the country, he has found ways to share shades of the sacred with his readers.
This book compiles ten years of newspaper columns that takes you into the military battlefield as well as the trauma rooms of major hospitals.
Recent Columns From Norris Burkes
By Norris Burkes Nov 16 2025 If you knew what you were going to die from, would that change the way you live? It’s a question I faced in the summer of 1999, when my Air Force doctor, a graying 50-something flight surgeon at Patrick Air Force […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes, Nov 9, 2025 As many of you are pondering your year-end charitable giving, I ask you to consider a woman I met in 1980 while I was the student-pastor of a church in Hopland, Calif. Like many Baptist pastors of the time, I encouraged members to follow the Biblical teaching of tithing […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes Nov 2 2025 Just in time for Halloween, I’ve dug up an obscure Bible passage. It describes a “Night of the Living Dead” long before George A. Romero’s 1968 black-and-white zombie film. It’s a passage from Matthew 27:52-53 following the crucifixion of Jesus and seems randomly injected into the Passion narrative. “The […]
[Read More]Oct 26 2026 By Norris Burkes My wife, Becky, came into the kitchen recently to find me rooting through the refrigerator. “Something wrong?” she asked. “Yes,” I said. “God wants me to have eggs and sausage, but my doctor wants me to eat oatmeal.” “Do you and God routinely discuss breakfast options?” she asked giving […]
[Read More]