On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Published: June 3, 2026 There is a kind of doubt that does not come from honest searching. It comes dressed in logic, wearing the robes of scholarship, and it asks questions not to find truth but to make truth look impossible. That is the kind of doubt Jesus encounters today in the Gospel of M...
Read reflectionPublished: June 2, 2026 There is a kind of trap that masquerades as a serious question. The Pharisees and the Herodians — two groups who otherwise had little use for each other — arrive together before Jesus in the...
Read more →Published: June 1, 2026 There is a certain breathtaking audacity to the parable Jesus tells in today's Gospel. He stands in the very Temple, surrounded by the chief priests and scribes and elders who have come to c...
Read more →Published: May 31, 2026 There is a moment in the Gospel of John that has haunted the hearts of believers for two thousand years. It comes in the dead of night, in a secret conversation between a rabbi and a Pharise...
Read more →Published: May 30, 2026 The scene in today's gospel is one of the most intellectually dramatic moments in all of Mark's narrative. Jesus has just entered Jerusalem in triumph, cleansed the Temple of money-changers,...
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