On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Published: July 23, 2026 There is a question buried in today's Gospel that every serious disciple eventually asks, perhaps with some bewilderment: why would Jesus deliberately make his teaching harder to understand? Why speak in riddles to people who are hungry? The disciples went directly to ...
Read reflectionPublished: July 22, 2026 There is a moment in the Gospel of John that stands apart from all others in its simplicity and its tenderness. Mary Magdalene stands weeping outside the empty tomb, her grief so complete t...
Read more →Published: July 21, 2026 There is a moment in the Gospel of Matthew that, taken out of context, can sound almost cold. Jesus is in the middle of addressing a crowd when someone interrupts to tell him that his mothe...
Read more →Published: July 20, 2026 There is a particular kind of blindness that comes not from lack of sight, but from an unwillingness to see. It is the blindness of a heart that has already decided what it will and will no...
Read more →Published: July 19, 2026 There is something deeply disquieting about a world that refuses to be neatly sorted. We encounter evil alongside goodness every day — sometimes within our institutions, sometimes within ou...
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