I stopped running from the ordination question and started wrestling with it.

It is not just our eyes that become brittle and inflexible as we age. Our hearts can, too.

"The center of my theology? Good Lord, that can't be anything else but God as mystery and Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen One, as the historical event in which this God turns irreversibly toward us in self-communication."

Along with the special communication of Scripture, God reaches us through the experience of a given day.

Pope Francis also prayed for the victims of the attacks on Sunday.

“Let’s not extinguish the hope in their hearts; let's not suffocate their hopes for peace,” the pope said of refugees.