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September 2022

September 11, 2022
On this day of national mourning, those lives lost twenty-one years ago burn in our...

June 2022

June 21, 2022
[To extend the celebration of Juneteenth a bit, I re-present a piece written in 2020,...

April 2022

April 16, 2022
Suffering forces us into a tight space, like a stone tomb, as the etymology of...

March 2022

March 25, 2022
Today, in hiddenness and smallness, the axis-tree of the world is replanted in an abyss...

February 2022

February 28, 2022
At the Frontier   Above the fighter jet, There is an azure dome; Below, the...

April 2021

April 30, 2021
[This was originally published at Ethika Politika on 17 January 2019. At the moment, the...
April 02, 2021
If we have eyes to see and ears to hear, is the maternity of Jesus...

December 2020

December 20, 2020
Is there such a thing is a kingdom without end? Would we even want such...
December 13, 2020
In a world full of suffering, violence, slavery, and death… A new day is about...
December 08, 2020
In Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Lourdes, the...

November 2020

November 29, 2020
The Old Testament promises of salvation for those who admit their guilt may be offered...
November 27, 2020
Imagine a church directed from the bottom up, and where the voices of clergy didn't...

March 2020

March 22, 2020
It was so easy for me. After several years of constantly wrestling with the question,...

December 2019

December 18, 2019
The Spirit breathed something wondrous: a girl with the perfect knowledge of good and evil...
December 11, 2019
“Dogma is like Sandy Dog – it doesn’t change,” I told my 11-year-old trying to...
December 06, 2019
“Let me in,” says Jesus, knocking on a door, in a popular meme. “Why?” replies...

September 2019

September 19, 2019
God doesn’t send anyone a cross to bear. How many times have you heard the...
September 02, 2019
Mystical theology seems to have become a lost art in Western Christianity, at least from...

August 2019

August 06, 2019
Why are these massacres occurring with crushing and accelerating frequency? I can’t help but perceive...

July 2019

July 23, 2019
Half Taiwanese, half white, I heard from random strangers, both black and white, growing up...
July 04, 2019
Happy Independence Day to you all! Political self-determination is a human necessity because it gives...
July 02, 2019
When we read the Bible, what are we looking for? Clarity? Instruction? Inspiration? Whatever we...

June 2019

June 02, 2019
I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for...

May 2019

May 14, 2019
In the grand arc of Scripture, we see again and again that there are two...

April 2019

April 26, 2019
This Triduum that just passed, I was abundantly blessed to be able to hear the...
April 13, 2019
To continue the series on ways of deepening our relationship with the Holy Spirit, I...

March 2019

March 11, 2019
The Holy Spirit will not allow Himself to be used. God never acts like a...
March 07, 2019
Most of the Passion of Perpetua is told in her own voice, written by her...

February 2019

February 24, 2019
Jürgen Moltmann’s book on eschatology, The Coming of God, came to my hands again recently....
February 18, 2019
Why are we starting off a series about inviting the Holy Spirit to take up...
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