July 29, the Feast of St. Martha, gives us a day to reflect upon Luke’s familiar story of Jesus’ visit with Mary and Martha. Whenever this reading comes around, I fear the resulting homily. Another […]
Category: The Gospel of Luke
Story-Telling with Luke: Transforming Our Personal and Collective Narratives
Last Sunday’s Gospel was Luke’s familiar story of Jesus’ visit with Mary and Martha. Before Mass, I quickly glanced at the readings and sighed. This one again, I thought to myself. Another chance to feel […]
Confronted, Confronting, Comforted: Reflections for Holy Week’s “Ordinary Days”
Holy Week balances the drama and ordinariness of Jesus’s last days in almost equal measure. Holy Week’s high liturgies literally script us into Jesus’s last days. We waved palms for Jesus and demanded His crucifixion […]
The Fruit of Holy Ground
When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.” God said, “Come no nearer! Remove […]
“A Sign That Will Be Contradicted”: On Conscience and Christian Praxis
Today’s mass readings took me right out of Christmas and straight to the Passion. I love reading familiar passages with new eyes but, let me be honest, sometimes the surprise is uncomfortable. So it goes. […]
Was Jesus Tortured?
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 […]
“The Canticle of the Turning”: The Gospel of Luke and Radical Imagination
If I had an opportunity to sit down and chat with one of the four evangelists, I’d pick Luke. I just find his gospel so riveting and his characters so compelling. Any child somewhat familiar […]
