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How Do Words Become Flesh?

December 24, 2018

This womb of mine will not know the pangs of pregnancy. My skin will not tighten when another body becomes part of my flesh. My…

December 14, 2018

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” Except, for you, this holiday season is anything but. Maybe you are moving through the annual…

November 21, 2018

Thanksgiving in the United States is often a time to come together with family, friends and whomever else we call community. My favorite memories of…

July 12, 2018

Years ago, while teaching theology to 9th graders, a particular student tugged at my heart. Each day he would come into my classroom and listen…

April 23, 2018

What we are now; what we will be. What has not yet been revealed; what we already know. The First Letter of John speaks to…

March 2, 2018

You are dreading another meal of ramen noodles and canned vegetables, but you know that’s all that’s left in the cupboard, that it’s the best…

February 1, 2018

I am not a germaphobe by nature, but this year’s flu season has me in a tizzy of microbial paranoia. Daily news reports about the…

January 23, 2018

I was first introduced to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s cosmology at a bar in Wisconsin. I was a recently graduated senior out to eat with…