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, July 13 2025 Are you familiar with a business named Chispa? No, I’m not talking about Chispa Project, the nonprofit my daughter Sara founded in 2015 to establish children’s libraries in Honduras. Just now, they are working on library #100. No small feat for their small but powerful Honduran team. But the […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes, July 6, 2025 As a chaplain, I find no greater meaning for Independence Day than in our constitutional right to freedom of worship. It’s a right I helped to defend during my 2009 deployment as a USAF Protestant Chaplain in Balad, Iraq. One afternoon the Senior Chaplain, Richard Hartwell, invited me to […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes, July 20, 2025 I want to caution you that if you’re driving this summer, be careful out there. The roads aren’t just filled with drunk drivers. Sometimes they’re filled with reckless pastors—as they were 25 years ago in Brentwood, Calif. During the late 1980s, I was the pastor of First Southern Baptist […]
[Read More]By Norris Burkes June 29, 2025. Wedding season is in full bloom in local parks and downtown churches, I’ve seen the lovely dresses spilling from stretch limos, flowers flowing, and jewelry sparkling. Looking at this outside view, I see the signs that the couple spent countless hours sweating the details of their lavish affair. But […]
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