On Hearing Call – Jan. 11, 2022
“Whether or not the call includes an outward journey, it always requires an inward one. We need to be delivered from all that binds and keeps the real self from breaking into music and becoming joy to the world.” –Elizabeth O’Connor, Cry Pain, Cry Hope, p. 81
Advent Lists? – Dec. 16, 2021
“Maybe we should start making Advent lists – they’d be like Christmas lists, but instead of listing things we want Santa to bring us we could write down things we want Christ to break in and take from us. In the hopes he could pickpocket the stupid junk in our houses, or abscond with our […]
Run Toward Our Transgressions – Sep. 30, 2021
“However small or large, our immediate instinct is to run away from our transgression. Or to hide it. Or to lie about what we did so that nobody will find out about it. And in doing that, we’re in bondage to the thing that we’ve done. We let it dictate our next move, and the […]
Concrete and Creative – Aug. 16, 2021
“Communion with the Lord inescapably means a Christian life centered around a concrete and creative commitment of service to others.” -Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation, pg. 11
