On the Feast of St. Basil, theologian of the Trinity, Daily Theology’s celebration of the Christmas season continues with a guest post by Dannis Matteson. “What will it take to make the engagement in […]
A Mary in Whose Footsteps I’d Like to Follow
The year I started kindergarten, my parish school began to undertake the installation of a statue of Mary outside our classroom. Much of that first year of school, my tiny classmates and I were instructed […]
The Seventh Day of Christmas: Sing a New Song
It’s the seventh day of Christmas and we know what that means: New Year’s Eve is here. It is time for the countdowns, late-night parties, those last minute donations for tax purposes, and, of course, […]
Jesus on a Plane – The Sixth Day of Christmas
I’m writing this post from row 31 of US Airways Flight 2064 on the second leg of my flight from Alabama to New York. Having spent a relaxing nine days at my parents’ house in […]
“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. […]
Beginning a New Family Called to Holiness
Let me put something upfront: when I agreed a couple months ago to write for the fourth day of Christmas, I did not make the connection that it would also be the Feast Day of […]
The Scandal of One Solitary Life
Every Christmas season I venture into midtown Manhattan to see the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center and to light a candle at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Some childhood traditions, such as these, will never leave. A […]
Trusting between Reality and Fantasy: Joseph and the Word Incarnate
This Christmas, the theology blogosphere has been blessed with an abundance of wonderfully thoughtful, beautiful, and incredibly real posts about the messiness, brokenness, and fleshliness of our existence, often in light of the Incarnation. (If […]
Now God Knows Us
On the last Saturday of Advent I was first in line for confessions at a local parish, which offers the sacrament between its afternoon and evening masses. Others filled in beside me, and the pastor […]
Jesus is Outside
He was scandalously conceived outside of a proper marriage, born outside of his society’s attention, and immediately a refugee outside his homeland as he fled brutal political power. He brought contempt and rejection upon himself […]
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