Daily Advent Reflection, Dec. 17: So much does God love us that he willingly wades into the messiness of our lives and works there.
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
Betsy Cahill is a writer, biblical scholar, and historic preservationist. Co-author (with Joseph Papp) of Shakespeare Alive! (Bantam Books, 1988), she contributed a chapter to Empty Churches (Oxford, 2018), and has written for both Commonweal and America. She chaired the board of the Preservation Society of Charleston for 8 years, and is now deeply involved as a board member in starting a Cristo Rey High School in Charleston.
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Marching forward with our shortcomings
Daily Advent Reflections, Dec. 16: We need only pay attention to see many instances of God’s grace all around us.
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Changing our mind in Advent
Daily Advent Reflections, Day 16: metanoia, the profound turning about of the soul, is not the same thing as inconsistency.
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Why is it so hard to give up control of our lives?
“I can ask nothing better than this, to be in your care—not my own.”
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Elizabeth’s Joyful Encounter with Christ
Daily Advent Reflection, Day 13: As Christmas draws near, let us skip like lambs as we share the good news of Christ’s coming.
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Sometimes there’s just no pleasing us.
Daily Advent Reflection, Day 12: When we hear the summons of Christ to change our patterns of life, are we truly responding?
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Breaking the routine of our daily faith practices
Daily Advent Reflections, Dec. 10: We must serve Christ by expanding the possibilities of discipleship past the boundary of the accustomed.
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What it means to ‘bless the Lord’
Daily Advent Reflections, Dec. 9: How can we, who have nothing, bless the God who has everything?
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God’s preferential option for the improbable
Daily Advent Reflections, Day 9: Mary offers herself, in all her ordinariness, fully and without hesitation to God.
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What to do when prayer is difficult? Go in through the roof
Daily Advent Reflections, Day 8: The paralytic and his friends show us the way.