faith
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.
September 8, 2019
About the second reading from Philemon, just to catch you up: Onesimus was a slave in Colossae, and Philemon was his owner.
December 20, 2019
Matthew tells us Joseph was “righteous.” Which means, being a good Jew, that he was righteous before not only God, but the Law.
August 8, 2020
Enslaved in Egypt, when God told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover meal, he made it clear to them that it was going to be fast food.
September 18, 2020
The last will be first, the first last. Jesus opened the kingdom to all—to gentiles, publicans, and sinners. He opened the kingdom to all who’d simply answer in faith and penance.
September 25, 2020
To be a disciple means, simply, first to believe and then to be obedient.
October 1, 2020
Jesus has come like a king into his city, like a God into his Temple. Yet he’s come like a man, a peasant, a challenger. Which is why they opposed him, why they killed him in the end.