On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
There is a question buried in today's Gospel that most of us quietly carry without ever saying it aloud: How many times do I really have to forgive? Peter thought he was being generous when he asked Jesus if seven times was enough. In the culture of his day, three times was the customary limit. ...
Read reflectionThere is a moment in the Gospel of Luke that is easy to rush past — a moment so brief in the telling, yet so volcanic in its implications, that it deserves to be held carefully in our hands during this season of Lent...
Read more →The Hail Mary is one of the most recognized prayers in the world. Billions of people have prayed it. And yet its current form took centuries to develop — assembled piece by piece from Scripture, liturgy, and popular d...
Read more →There is something quietly radical about the scene at Jacob's Well. It is noon — the hottest hour of the day — and Jesus is sitting alone, tired from his journey, resting beside a well that carries centuries of Jewis...
Read more →There is a moment in the Parable of the Prodigal Son that theologians, artists, and saints have returned to for two thousand years, and yet it never loses its power. A young man, having squandered everything his fath...
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