A Very Imperfect Christmas
The perfect world God created slipped away from us. We found ourselves East of Eden. But, remarkably, God did not turn to the angels and say, “dang, well, that whole human project didn’t work out...
Holy Chaos
Christ is coming alright, but not as a cute little baby, but at an unexpected time in an apocalypse where one is taken and one remains.
Our Eucharistic Planet
The Biblical poetic imagination has long pondered exactly how and who Jesus the Christ IS. John puts him squarely at and in the beginning—In the beginning was the Word—the principle of divine reason and creative...
Alpha, Omega, and Everything In Between
If you want a fabulous vision of God’s end-game for creation, there is no better place to look than the end of the Book of Revelation, with its golden streets and pearly gates—no more tears...
Holy Thirst
For all the good our private wells and spigots do for us, they can keep us from having neighbors. They keep us from the village well, where you have to wait your turn and find...
The Problem with Gates
Jesus said more about money, about wealth, than he did about any other moral issue of his day. The gap between rich and poor seems to have bothered him more than stealing, lying, or any...
Lost and Found
Jesus being criticized yet again by the Pharisees for hanging out with lepers, tax collectors, prostitutes–and worse than just hanging out with them, he is eating with them. He has “received” them returning their hospitality...
Holy Hating
There is nothing bad about a safe, warm environment. Nor is there anything bad about being polite and kind. But that is not what Jesus was all about, not the vision Jesus has for his...
Repairers and Rebuilders
We are a people of divisions, breaches. As with Isaiah’s people many, perhaps all, of our breaches are at root our failure, our refusal, to see those who are different from us as equal, as...
Enough
In Hosea’s time things were bad: priests and religious leaders were running amok and exploiting the poor and the weak—interpreting scripture to justify their own prejudices and desires, creating rules to ensure they remained on...