“The hardest thing in the world is to be where we are,” Rowan Williams observes. And yet where we are is often precisely where God asks us to be. God asks us to be attentive to all that surrounds us and honest […]
Category: Afterlife
“Pray for My Mom”
Augustine’s Confessions. Very few other books have left their mark on an entire civilization as deeply as this one narrative of sin and grace. Less an autobiography in the contemporary sense than a reinterpretation […]
The Assumption: A Call to Walk with God
Growing up in a parish dedicated to St. Mary of the Assumption, with so many stained glass windows, statues, songs and prayers dedicated to events in the life of the mother of Jesus, I think […]
The Gospel, Mercy, and Chemotherapy
The first time I walked into the “chemo room”, I wanted out. I was there to support my friend, but he was far calmer than I. Let’s just say that going into a doctor’s office […]
Rituals of Hope and All Souls’ Day
The theology of All Souls’ Day is often explained in connection with Purgatory; for example, Michael Rubbelke wrote a great post on Purgatory and prayers for the dead last year during Daily Theology’s Halloween-themed Shark […]
Finding Faith in The Simpsons: The Top Five Theological Episodes of The Simpsons
One of the longest-running comedies in history, The Simpsons is currently airing in a massive marathon on the FXX network. It’s an enormous Simpsons event: not only will it take nearly two weeks to air […]
The Death of Saints I Never Knew
In The Life You Save May Be Your Own, a book about the lives of Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, and Thomas Merton, author Paul Elie describes learning about the lives of others as […]
A Lenten Resurrection
In an interesting juxtaposition of the liturgical and television seasons, the First Sunday of Lent saw the premiere of ABC’s much-promoted Resurrection. The show is raveling a thread about what happens when deceased loved ones […]
The Feast Day of C.S. Lewis, Patron of the Imagination
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. Known perhaps best as an author of children’s fiction and as a Christian apologist, Lewis was a student of the imagination and talented in […]
Purgatory: Healing the Brokenness of Christ’s Body
Purgatory is a word haunted by ghosts: the ghosts of Reformers rightly objecting to Tetzel’s alms-box, the spirits of my pious grandparents, praying from devotionals filled with prayers promising days and years remitted from purgatorial punishment. […]
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