Christ
May 30, 2019
Truth is a writer’s first responsibility. To conquer the lie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said.
May 22, 2019
Maggie Whitfield interviews Melanie Newman of the Salem Red Sox…
April 22, 2019
It is hard to describe the loss of Notre Dame. When the poet Rainer Maria Rilke lived in Paris, each evening on his way home, he stopped as he crossed the Siene on the Île de la Cité to watch the sun set over Notre Dame. The darkening ancient towers silent against the new, awakening, electric […]
December 13, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. To rejoice, to be joyful, is the apostolic and angelic command, and the message of this Advent. The news is “good” and “of great joy,” the angels declared to the shepherds, half asleep and perhaps imbibed.[1] “Rejoice,” says Paul, “always;” it’s an exhortation, a command.[2] The merriness of our […]
December 27, 2020
“I gave thanks to the Lord that I was separated from my father,” she said. “I was comforted by his absence.”
January 24, 2021
Marinus was a Roman soldier serving in Palestine in the latter half of the third century, a good soldier by all accounts. The trouble began when he was promoted to the rank of centurion.
January 31, 2021
For those who attended last Sunday’s talk, the first in our series called What We Believe, today’s readings probably make a bit more sense to you than they otherwise would have.
