Commitment
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 26, 2022
There’s a story I’ve always liked of an old Egyptian monk, from about 1,400 years ago, living in what today is called Wadi al Natrun, southwest of the city of Alexandria. He stepped out of his cell one night and saw the devil himself handing out gardening implements to all the other monks—shovels, spades, a scythe […]