You Would Not Have Understood the Crucifixion Had You Seen It (Because No One Did)Growing up around the Catholic Church, we kids would walk the Stations of the Cross each year. At one Catholic school I attended, we even…Apr 1, 20233Apr 1, 20233
The Genesis of Christmas: uprooting the family tree (Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2022)If you can name your great-great grandparents, you are a part of a tiny minority of Americans. If you can go beyond that, you are in a…Dec 17, 2022Dec 17, 2022
The Genesis of Christmas, part 3: how to vindicate your life (Third Sunday of Advent, 2022)“For the Germans…I think that remorse is pointless…I feel sure that they won’t earn the forgiveness they could get form the world just by…Dec 11, 2022Dec 11, 2022
The Genesis of Christmas, part 2: Conception, birth, and pain (Second Sunday of Advent 2022)You cannot talk about Christmas without talking about childbirth. For as much as Christians have tried to clean up the Nativity, it’s…Dec 3, 20221Dec 3, 20221
The Genesis of Christmas, part 1: Hosting God (First Sunday of Advent 2022)“Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by…Nov 25, 2022Nov 25, 2022
When faith in God deletes the options“Where are we going up?” -Deuteronomy 1:28Oct 27, 2022Oct 27, 2022
Seeing the One who tasted death (Holy Week 2022)“Holy Week” refers to the seven days before Easter Sunday. The word “holy” literally means “set apart.” For centuries, Christians all over…Apr 14, 2022Apr 14, 2022
What kinds of conversations should Christians avoid?“You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever…To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.”Mar 27, 20221Mar 27, 20221
What does it mean that God is our “refuge?”There is nowhere God is not. His presence permeates this world in a way that none of us can grasp, even as the finer theological minds have…Mar 17, 2022Mar 17, 2022
Reading Widely: the joy of “useless” books“I can’t use anything from it,” he said.Feb 26, 20221Feb 26, 20221