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  • Justice and Peace

    Justice and Peace

    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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  • Mark 10: Blind Bart

    Mark 10: Blind Bart

    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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  • Best I Can Offer

    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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  • Right Questions

    Asking the right question is a gift, both for the asker and the recipient. I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT a little – mostly for fun, a little for work – and I’ve noticed that there’s an art to asking it the right question. A lot of times, it takes me 3-4 rounds of follow-up

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  • Small-Time Radical

    “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever growing

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