If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.
Scripture
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
I left seminary because I thought I’d be an unhappy priest. God knew better.
Give yourself to the Lord, embrace your vocation. Joy will creep up and tap you on the shoulder.
Posted inFaith, The Living Word
How we read Scripture can help or hinder efforts toward gender equality
Barbara E. Reid on using Scripture to further gender equality
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Souls at War: An interview with the Iraq veteran and writer Phil Klay
Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s
Posted inFaith, The Word
The Vineyard Grows
In biblical poetry a vineyard often represents the beloved. The prophet Isaiah begins to “sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard,” a song in which God’s affectionate care of Israel is recounted. The love song quickly becomes a lover’s lament, though, as Isaiah tells how the vineyard was prepared with tenderness, but since it produced “wild grapes,” it will now be abandoned.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Did Jesus Have a Wife? No.
Was Jesus married? Here’s why almost every New Testament scholar believes that Jesus was unmarried.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Mother’s Tale
‘The Testament of Mary’ tells an intriguing though not always convincing story. It’s main character—and to an extent its only character—is an old woman fretting about her past as she tries to get the facts straight.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Job and the Mystery of Suffering
Every once in a great while I chance upon a spiritual book which I not only delight in reading but also want to chew on and ponder prayerfully and save to share with others One such is Richard Rohr’s ‘Job and the Mystery of Suffering.’
Posted inFaith, The Word
Who Do You Say You Are?
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Aug. 21, 2011