December 22, 2019
It should be required reading, I think, for members of the clergy: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, that masterpiece of American literature and of the American psyche.
December 20, 2019
Can we imagine enemies as friends, or an addict who’s finally free? What about your husband, your wife, your own hard heart? Can you imagine these surprisingly new? What about us? Can we imagine ourselves beautifully better, different? Can we conceive it? Is it even sensible to try, to ask these questions of hope?
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.
December 17, 2019
“Bustle does not make a festival; on the contrary, it can spoil one.”
December 12, 2019
Where Christ is, there is healing. That’s how we know he’s present.
December 9, 2019
It’s beautiful, really. The Church seems to say that if you know anything about parental love, then you know about grace. If either you’re a parent yourself, or if you have been blessed by the genuine love of your mother or father; then, the Church suggests, you already know a great deal about the grace of […]