I have been struck with a perspective this lent season that I really haven’t pondered before. Much of my focus during this time in years past has been that of personal devotion, realignment and attention to that which is potentially hindering my love for...
When the news of the recent earthquake in Turkey broke, I had this overwhelming feeling of paralysis. Not in my body, nor my emotions per se, not even intellectually, this somehow felt different. Maybe for the first time, or at least in a different way, I was able to...
Much like Peter himself, or at least how I would imagine him, the tone of his First Epistle is one of urgency and intensity. He is speaking to the Church in exile, writing from the belly of the beast, Rome, or as he calls it in Chapter 5, Babylon. His confidence is in...
“The mother of expectation is patience. The French author Simone Weil writes in her notebooks: “Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.” Without patience our expectation degenerates into wishful thinking.”...
No, I have not listened to any of the “Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” podcast, but I have been watching the second season of “The Vow” on HBO. It is an unsettling documentary about Keith Raniere, the founder and CEO of NXIVM and the abuse of power...
