faith
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Altissimu, omnipotente bon Signore, Tue so le laude, la gloria e l’honore et onne benedictione. One year I tried to give up impatient driving for Lent. That didn’t go so great. Count me among those who can’t wait for autonomous vehicles to replace all the other drivers on the road. Ad Te solo, Altissimo, se…
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You first. Starting with yesterday’s Gospel, the readings for daily mass have some challenging things to say about how we Christians ought to act. Yesterday, we heard: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” And: “Give to everyone who asks of…
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We have a Stage 5 God, a Stage 4 Church, and too many Stage 3 leaders. One of my favorite books on leadership is Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright. Their approach presupposes that people are social in nature, that workplaces are essentially tribes (or tribes of tribes, if they’re big…
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In Luke 21 (which is the Gospel for the first week of Advent this year), Jesus warns his followers about a final judgment day, saying, “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.” Of course,…
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The readings that the Catholic Church uses for Sunday Mass and the ones it chooses for daily Mass don’t intentionally line up; the daily readings generally work slowly through a Gospel and another book of the Bible, while the ones on Sunday will work through a Gospel and another book of the New Testament, with…
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Get out of the way. There’s a little story in Mark (10:46-52, this Sunday’s Gospel for you Catholics) about the healing of a blind man named Bartimaeus. It’s a pretty straightforward story that only takes a couple of verses, but even a small story like this has details worth reflecting on. Jesus and a crowd…
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In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation, not only of my home state of Florida, but a lot of the southeastern United States, I don’t have a lot to offer that ties what we’ve been through into a neat little bow. In fact, there’s a bit of a through line in the essays of Abandoning…
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Who do you look like? They say couples that have been together for a long time start to look like each other. I don’t know if that’s true. But I do know that, if not in physical ways, it’s part of human nature that we start to resemble the people we focus our attention on,…
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What would Jesus do? I posted something on Facebook about the brouhaha stemming from the Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies spectacle including a performance that was interpreted as a drag-queen parody of the Last Supper, but I want to come back to this and take a different approach. As seems to happen with everything these days,…
Reading Francis 