Believing and Not Believing
The Sadducees ask Jesus a question about a reality they do not believe.* So do we. We pray for our next calling, a new community, our purpose in life, but doubt they even exist for us. We ask for more faith, more trust, more hope—yet we don’t believe they are possible. At least not possible […]
Loving Our Enemies
A long, long time ago, long before I was baptized in my 40s, I thought that I wanted to be a saint. I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant, of course, but I had some inkling that it meant more than simply being good. In Luke’s version of the beatitudes,* Jesus gives a list of […]
Where We Belong
I’ve just returned from a work trip to southern Kenya to celebrate 20 years of service of an organization transforming Maasai warriors who kill lions into Lion Guardians who protect lions. Their work is to promote peaceful coexistence between Maasai communities and lion communities sharing land. Lion killing is a deeply embedded rite of passage […]
God’s Constancy
In this Sunday’s gospel parable, I have to hand it to the seemingly powerless widow for being so persistent in her cries for justice before a powerful authority who seemingly couldn’t care less.* What propels her day in and day out to make her case before a judge “who neither feared God nor had respect […]
