Author & Theologian
I read a insightful article by the Washington Post, comparing American and European (specifically Italian) views of busyness. For the American, busyness is a sign of prestige, proof that you are valuable to a company you work for, or society […]
God’s kingdom is not like the kingdoms of this world. Jesus made that clear throughout His ministry, most notably in trial before Pilate. His kingdom is in the world, but it is strange and poor, weak and needy, frankly, it is a […]
Episcopal priest Robert Farrar Capon writes with brilliant precision on the good news of why Jesus Christ is nothing like Santa Claus: The words of that dreadful Christmas song sum up perfectly the only kind of messianic behavior the human […]
Advent began this past Sunday, November the 27th, which marks the beginning of the Church’s celebration of God’s taking up human flesh in Jesus Christ and becoming a man for us and for our salvation. In the spirit of this, […]
I love this quote from C.S. Lewis on the Incarnation of Christ: “In the Incarnation God the Son takes the body and human soul of Jesus, and, through that, the whole environment of Nature, all the creaturely predicament, into His […]
The words of that dreadful Christmas song sum up perfectly the only kind of messianic behavior the human race, in it’s self-destructive folly, is prepared to accept: ‘He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice; he’s going to find out […]