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April 20, 2018
Dark Devotional: Shepherds in the Suburbs
Art by the fluffy and sheepish Brian Jocks. ***** If you want get to...
April 13, 2018
Dark Devotional: Let’s Play a Game
Art by the wide-eyed and tearful Brian Jocks. While they were still speaking about this,...
April 06, 2018
Dark Devotional: On the Outside with Doubting Thomas
During a lockdown, all of the doors inside and outside of the school are locked....
March 2018
March 31, 2018
Dark Devotional: A Walk to Easter
I have spent the last week thinking about an Easter devotional. What on earth (or...
March 24, 2018
Dark Devotional: The Jackass
The curtain is about to rise on the greatest week of the year for Catholicism....
March 16, 2018
Dark Devotional: Hear Us, O Lord!
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions...
March 08, 2018
Dark Devotional: How can I call myself a Christian?
Art by the crimson and reflective Brian Jocks. My sophomore year at Taylor University, a...
March 03, 2018
Dark Devotional: Their Fathers’ Wickedness
In those days, God delivered all these commandments: "I, the LORD, am your God, who...
February 2018
February 22, 2018
The Harder They Come: Lenten Dark Devotional
Art by the brilliant and transfigurative Brian Jocks. I do not like Lent. There...
February 16, 2018
Dark Devotional: Happily Stuck in the Desert
My family recently spent a week in Big Bend National Park in western Texas. As...
February 09, 2018
Dark Devotional: Go and Claim Your Healing
A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish,...
February 02, 2018
Dark Devotional: Demons
Art by the sinister and perhaps possessed Brian Jocks. When it was evening, after sunset,...
January 2018
January 26, 2018
Dark Devotional: Deciphering Voices
Art by the fiery and thundering Brian Jocks. “The people were astonished at his teaching,...
January 19, 2018
Dark Devotional: Hearing Your Call
Art by the flockin' incredible Brian Jocks. As a lover of good stories, I recognize...
January 11, 2018
Dark Devotional: Hearing God’s Voice
At that time Samuel was not familiar with the LORD, because the LORD had...
January 04, 2018
Dark Devotional: New Year, Same Mission
Associate Editor's note: This Dark Devotional was written reflecting on the Feast of Christ the...
December 2017
December 28, 2017
Dark Devotional: Blessed Are _____________
I have always struggled with the Beatitudes. “Blessed are _______ for they will ______.”...
December 25, 2017
Christmas: It’s Complicated
Christmas is complicated. On one hand, the music is familiar, the smells are sweet, the...
December 22, 2017
Christmas at War: A Dark Devotional
As I read and meditated on this Sunday's readings, I couldn't get a question out...
December 15, 2017
The Great Pumpkin of Advent, a Dark Devotional
For the past two weeks, I’ve been troubled by Jesus’ admonition to stay awake and...
December 07, 2017
Dark Devotional: Desert Breath
Where does spirit come from? From God ultimately, of course, but I mean, in the...
December 01, 2017
Dark Devotional: Strange Mercy
The first reading for the First Sunday of Advent (Is 63: 16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7) begins...
November 2017
November 17, 2017
Dark Devotional: When Letting Go is Holding On
“My dishonesty with myself and others hinders the honesty of all humanity, hinders the progress...
November 10, 2017
Wisely Keeping Vigil, a Dark Devotional
The inarticulate moans came from a closed bedroom door at my elderly cousin’s house...
November 05, 2017
Dark Devotional: The Book of Judith
White scar like thread runs up and down my wrist, not because I tried...
October 2017
October 19, 2017
Dark Devotional: Playing Both Sides
The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent...
October 15, 2017
Dark Devotional: Being a Wave
“I have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that I am...
October 06, 2017
Dark Devotional: In Praise of the Wild Grapes
It’s hard to write when you’re hugely distracted by really entertaining friends. The type of...
September 2017
September 30, 2017
Dark Devotional: Saint Paul Say WHAT?
I love to pray. I love to spend time with God, in silence, in community,...
September 23, 2017
Dark Devotional: Remain in the Flesh
I feel a little grandiose saying my life is necessary for anyone’s benefit, but the...
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