That world is no larger than the people and concerns you care about. Everything else is only the wallpaper of your world.
The Good Word
Vows are for life: two senses of a common saying.
Vows exist to foster life, to defend it, to allow it to flourish.
Clem and Richard Neuhaus: the sad settlement of separation
If heaven admitted shame, Clem and Richard Neuhaus might still blush at the separation they chose to create between themselves on earth.
Is the Ethiopian eunuch the first Gentile convert in Acts?
This is the twenty-fifth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This entry deals with the Philip rsquo s continuing his mission to Samaria and encountering a marginalized person with respect to Israel an Ethiopian eunuch For previous entries please now go to the
To be an adult, reclaim the best of the child.
Jesus went to the cross, a terribly adult reality, with the trust and the resiliency of a child.
Vision or illusion?
Martin Luther King Jr., Ta-Nehisi Coates and the American Dream
What do we do when the demands of civil law conflict with divine commands?
Religious integrity calls on Kim Davis to heed her own conscience, but not dictate the conscience of others.
Christ is too beautiful not to be true.
We used to stress (rightly) that to miss Mass was a grave sin. We ought to work harder to make Mass something gracious and beautiful.
Simon Magus tries to buy the Holy Spirit
This is the twenty-fourth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This entry deals with the apostles Peter and John taking up Philip rsquo s mission to Samaria and Simon the magician offering money for the Holy Spirit For previous entries please now go to the Compl
Confession: the sacrament of story
In Confession, your act of telling your story opens the way for God’s act of forgiveness.
