When Pontius Pilate asked “What is truth?” he might have been addressing the political situation saturating today’s television. Truth? How often have partisans hammered home a misleading statement to advance their campaign? How often has the actual truth, bludgeoned...
In her recent article, Behold, the Body of Christ, Sister Nancy Sylvester describes two images: (1) a First Communion scene of happy 7- and 8-year-old girls and boys and (2) a TIME photo of 7- and 8-year-old girls and boys being used as Boko Haram suicide bombers...
“Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not see it?” Isaiah 43:19 I think that as people get older, their agendas don’t include doing too many new things. Habits take over and ruts get more comfortable. But sometimes new things invade your life...
Psalm 130 “I long for the Lord more than sentinels long for the dawn. ” Whenever I read the word sentinel or sentry, I imagine a geography of shadows in which a barely visible guard stands on what can only be called a battlement and watches the darkness...
Flickr: wackystuff Church was . . . In my childhood memories, “church” was identified by difference; if you belonged to this one, you didn’t belong to that one. There was something wrong about that one. Many years later, I learned that a church is not so much a...
