The Gospel of Tebow? More Reads

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Two Tebow pieces of interest to Tebow fans: First up, Joseph Bottum, who made a big hit with his Christmas-themed Amazon Single (a short ebook) Dakota Christmas, has published another one, this time on Tebow: The Gospel According to Tim: Believe in him, I mean: believe that he’s for real. The young man is drunk [...]

Meeting Him on the Mt. of Olives

” . . . let us spread before his feet, not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in him. We who have been baptized into Christ must ourselves be the garments that we spread before [...]

How Pilgrim Monks are to be Received

Part of my Lent has been re-reading the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, pertinent to the day. It’s been speaking to me in very personal and private ways. Today as I contemplate a great decision that involved travel and has me doubting and unsure, the lesson is about stability, which is actually one of the [...]

Difficult Lent – Love, Pain and Balance

It’s been a difficult Lent, for me, at least. Lots of things to ponder, and so little free time to really do it. One thing I’ve learned this Lent is that I am lending more time to work than to the things that matter. Not that work doesn’t matter. It certainly does, and I love [...]

Pieta, Signore

Have mercy, Lord, on me in my remorse! Lord, have mercy if my prayer rises to you: do not chastise me in your severity. Less harshly, always mercifully, look down on me, on me. Never let me be condemned to hell in the eternal fire by your severity. Almighty God, never let me be condemned [...]

Reclaiming Lent

Comments are closed for the weekend. Let us reclaim our Lenten focus. Image Source We think that in prayer we speak to God, and we are not wrong to think so. But the heart of prayer is that God speaks to us. It is not God whose mind is changed by our prayer, but we [...]

In your light we see light

“No destructive action…can ever corrode the substance of Creation . . . there is a divinely guaranteed Goodness of being which no amount of mischief can undermine.” — Josef Pieper, In Tune With the World I saw as in letters of gold this word Goodness, which I repeated for a long while with an indescribable [...]