Tuesday of Holy Week

This is a fearful time, especially for those who are being targeted by some of the currents of our cultural wars.

“If you really want to live you’ve gotta die” is a puzzle that could leave you off kilter your whole life long.

Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.

On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide.

I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.

In ancient Israel, priests were the gates through which God poured mercy.

He faces it.

I'm giving thanks for the very personal ways I am blessed by people acting outside their job descriptions.

Matthew’s Beatitudes are meant to give comfort, not to challenge.

Jesus’ hearers are well-acquainted with calamity and crisis.

Not just suffering

The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.

Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.

A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.

The crucified Jesus in John's Gospel is cosmic—and magnetic.