Ascension
April 2, 2021
That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
June 1, 2019
Today much of the Church celebrates the Ascension of Jesus. Appearing among the disciples and others after the resurrection, Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father in heaven.
May 29, 2022
I keep thinking of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, what he said once, that, “The wicked walk round in circles.”[1]
May 21, 2023
Most are unaware how seditious Christianity was in the earliest centuries of the Church, unaware how threatening Christianity was to the world of late antiquity.
May 12, 2024
A mother was here earlier today. I stood with her, there in front of the altar.