I call upon the Equals to the Apostles to bear myrrh with me For the innocent ones lost, for my…
How long can I carry a broken heart through the world? How long can I imagine myself severed from all…
As soon as dawn woke the birds, before the sunrise had warmed the cicadas into song, the villagers smiled into…
*(C) is the Roman numeral for one hundred thousand I watched the grass grow the summer I was eight years…
Lazarus was listening for Jesus long before he died. He would hear his friend’s voice on the road of an afternoon and rush to find his sisters.
“Martha, bring the good olives. Mary, set out your finest cheese. I will get the water to wash his feet.”
He listened for the voice on his sickbed, his deathbed, and in the tomb, he listened.
Now is a time of caution, preparedness, and grief, but that does not mean it is not also a time…
Pandemics, like other suffering, set a pin on the map of history, showing us a little of our place compared…
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall…
In the run-up to Lent, the daily readings take a turn towards length and seriousness. In a parallel to the…
Don’t fill my comments with “exacerbatio” just yet. I’m not really here to talk about cognates. I had a hard…