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...
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...
Lately I’ve become really interested in computer jigsaw puzzles – all the random tiles of shapes and colors that crowd the laptop screen before eventually revealing the mosaic! It’s satisfying to solve the mystery. “Solve?” Not really. I actually have nothing...
