Advent Readiness and Mutual Hospitality
Our home has a Christ room. The room is simple, outfitted with an enormous depiction of Rembrandt’s “Return…
Listening in Ordinary Time
Learning the art of listening shapes us into creatures who love. Years ago, at around 6 p.m. every…
St. Peter and the Spirit of Advent
Not too long ago, one of my dear friends traveled to Rome. Among many noteworthy moments, including an…
All Creation Sings to God
Tony is a man of melody. He sang in the choir of Emmanuel Baptist Church many years ago,…
When Lent gives you lemons, make a curd
We bought a lemon tree a couple of years ago. Bonnie Sue Ellis came home with what appeared…
The little way today
My three-year-old daughter, JoyAna, loves the garden. She walks around smelling flowers, searching for worms and almost indiscriminately…
Advent: watchfulness, waiting and wanting
In Psalm 130, we are taught to pray: “ I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and…
Book review: “A Riff of Love”
The Gospel calls us to conversion. Jesus invites us into ongoing repentance that involves receiving a new vision…
The holy work of tending to life
“Everything is work. We either accept it or we fight against life.” This was the declaration of the…
Learning to abide in care
What does it mean to be a community of care? How can we deepen in our care for one another in a world so caught up in efficiency and the self-protection of individualism?
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