Given how quickly the lectionary moves away from post-Easter events, it is tempting to think we “run out” of stories of the risen Christ. Yet the Church is encouraging us to re-evaluate Jesus’s whole life (and ours) in light of His resurrection. Having had the good fortune to […]
Yesterday, President Trump ordered to remove the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement for reasons such as securing America’s “sovereignty,” protecting the economy, and so that other nations will no longer “laugh” at the United States. As citizens, and as persons of faith, we are faced with a grotesque scandal […]
The chapel was darker than I had expected. The monstrance stood on the altar, flanked by candles and spotlighted by two overhead lights. The rest of the room was a canvas depicting the shading of these feeble lights into the night-black streaming from the stained glass. A man in […]
This year, on the First Wednesday of Advent (Dec 3), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a report on the CIA’s interrogation tactics between late 2001 and early 2009, when President Obama took office and banned “enhanced interrogation methods.” The full report (at least the declassified version) is available here. There […]
I once had the good fortune to learn about the Gospel of John with the world-renowned Biblical scholar and prominent “historical Jesus” expert, John P. Meier. Despite our semester-long engagement with this one gospel, my notes indicate we only made it through Jesus’s encounter with Pilate (18:28-19:16). This […]
