heaven
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.
November 8, 2019
“Easter should make rebels of us all,” wrote David Bentley Hart, an ornery theologian I happen to like. It’s one of my favorite things he’s ever said. And it is, in short, the moral of these readings from the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, that our faith should give us courage, rebellious courage.
November 10, 2019
You wouldn’t think it, necessarily, but early Christian martyrs were often funny. They weren’t pious wimps singing hymns while being led away to torture and death. More often than not they were sardonic, sarcastic, and smart-mouthed.