Dear Theophilus
Luke is quite obviously the fussiest of the gospel writers. Mark starts his gospel in the middle, jumping straight into […]
Sacrificial Adventure
“[B]ut we have assuredly formed a body of people to whom the Church is a challenge to sacrificial adventure, rather
Perpetua’s Challenge to Rethink Adulthood
“I am a Christian.”—The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. Tr. Thomas J Heffernan. Oxford University Press, 2012. When did you
How to pray when it’s just not working for you
We end up banging our spiritual heads against the wall many times over the course of a life. The cause
Let’s be real: I don’t love that we have a feast day about a torture device.
Let’s be real: I don’t love that we have a feast day about a torture device. You, too, have probably
Hope is a song in a weary throat
Pauli Murray makes our list of remembrances because she shines like the sun. She was the first African American woman
Barnabas and the god of thunder
Like so many of that early Christian crowd, we know little of Barnabas. A central figure in the Jerusalem community,
What We Hand Down
When someone hands down to us a precious family artifact, it comes to us scored with dozens of memories, scratches,
The Conversions of Saint Paul
Does the trajectory of your religious life look like Paul’s? Mine doesn’t, and not just because I never worked the coat closet at a stoning.
Speak now, my whole heart!
In my household, when we find ourselves really angry with each other, we begin to compose elaborate prefaces for our sentences.