Easter
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.
April 22, 2019
In the Seventh Circle of Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, in the circle of violence, is a rockslide, rubble as from an earthquake. It wasn’t always ruinous like this, this part of hell. It’s new, Virgil tells Dante; it wasn’t there the last time he came through. Earlier, Virgil had talked about it, the moment hell shook. […]
April 28, 2019
I call it the Second Struggle. After Easter, Peter and the disciples still needed to grow.
May 12, 2019
He talked of a kingdom, Jesus did. In him, it is “at hand,” he said.[1] It’s why we’re called to repent and believe, because it would be a fearful thing otherwise.
May 19, 2019
In George Orwell’s novel 1984—in that dark world, that dystopia—there is something called the “Two Minutes Hate.”
May 26, 2019
The guardians of Plato’s just city had to be brave.
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.