Second Wednesday of Advent
Spirituality
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Celebrating Christmas isn’t always easy. That’s the point.
To those who lived in that world of fear, it must have seemed absurd that an infant would be the answer to their fear.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I had given up on prayer. Depression taught me how much I needed it.
Without the weeks I spent easing back into prayer, I would not be alive today.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What if you are that stray lamb? A reflection for Advent.
However it happens, at some point, you will realize that you have no idea where you are, and that there are a lot of unfriendly beasts out there in the world.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
A crucified God, like the attack on Pearl Harbor, is not the status quo.
A crucified God is not the status quo, and it is isn’t made into the acceptable, the intellectually palatable, by the proclamation of the resurrection.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Jesus as stain remover: Second Monday of Advent
All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Coattails: Dec. 4, Second Sunday of Advent
Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
God loves us like sheep—even when we feel we are without a shepherd
First Saturday of Advent
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Two Saints on a Single Day: the Anglican and the Jesuit
Two saintly Christians separated by only a few decades in time.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
More than a set of actions, prayer is a state of being.
Dec. 2, First Friday of Advent.