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 June 15, 2025 On a hot summer day in 2018, my wife, Becky, and I were moving into our retirement home in Auburn, California, when Becky’s sister, Melissa, stopped by to help us unpack. A few hours into the job, Becky put down her boxes and started making sandwiches for us. A […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes June 8, 2025 If you remember my column on Valentine’s Day about my FBI friend, Steve Dupre, you might want to hear the rest of the story of how we met. Weeks before I purchased my two-story Elk Grove Calif. McMansion in 2002, the FBI raided my soon-to-be neighbor’s home and arrested […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes, June 1 2025 Sunday, June 1st is national ”Say Something Nice Day.” The day was started in 2003 by fellow columnist, Mitch Carnell and Baptist laymen. Carnell conceived the day as one in which we might intentionally express compliments, appreciation, and encouragement to folks around us. In his book, Say Something Nice: […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes May 25 2025 I often felt that if I hadn’t become a chaplain, I’d have become a safety officer. For example, whenever I volunteer with Chispa Project in Honduras, I’m the guy who steadies the ladder, double checks that the lunch produce is washed correctly and then I police the perimeter for […]
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