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I’m posting this here, but it’s entirely the work of Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248), who posted it on a Twitter thread and gave me permission to replicate it here for the blessed among you who don’t do Twitter. I cleaned up the formatting a little to translate tweets to more common grammar, but otherwise have left…
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There’s kind of a lot for a somewhat vocal Catholic convert to react to today. I’m still processing the news of yesterday’s Pennsylvania grand jury report documenting graphic allegations by more than 1,000 victims over 70 years against more than 300 priests in six of Pennsylvania’s eight dioceses. I feel the need to say something,…
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I really intended to focus on something else, and hopefully I’ll get back to it at some point, but Pope Francis went and released a new document, an apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness, and I can’t just ignore it. An apostolic exhortation is a teaching document, which is to say it isn’t intended…
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One of my Lenten things, one I actually did, was read through Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life again, for the first time in several years. Since I use his 5-fold framework for the Christian life – worship, community, discipleship, service, witness – as an examination of conscience on an ongoing basis, it wasn’t surprising, but his,…
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How many kinds of people do you see? I notice that a lot of people see two kinds of people: Good People and Evil People. Some people see only one kind of people: We are all basically the same, even though our background and experiences shape us a little and our choices can shape our…
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From Now On (with a great backstory) This last song on the soundtrack seems, in some ways, the most “gospel-y.” There’s a little flourish in the piano before the first chorus that has a gospel flair, and the sound, once the song gets ramped up, is very reminiscent of contemporary Christian music’s Rend Collective. The theme…
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If the circus is a ritual, “The Greatest Show” describes the mass.
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Life has a way of sorting out your priorities for you. We all have a story we tell ourselves and maybe others about what’s really important to us, what our core values are. A lot of times, that story reflects what we want to be true about ourselves, but maybe not our reality. Usually (at…
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A confession: I get a lot of books from people, and most of them, I never read. (I also give a lot of books to people. If you’re one of them, let this absolve you of any guilt you feel for not reading them.) I appreciate the thoughtfulness behind the gift of a book, and…
