I come here to surrender utterly to the most delicious solitude.
Sermons
A Summons
In any story that involves a summons, there is a crucial question that must inevitably be resolved:
Will the person who is summoned heed the call?
The Most Important Thing
Poetry may be the human science that best captures this shifting of the soul – but I want to make the case for religion too.
Generational Joy
A few days before, Mary had made herself small, by saying “I am the Lord’s Servant.”
Now she says: “My soul magnifies the Lord.”
The Kingdom of Heaven will be like this….
“The kingdom of heaven will be like this…” You will recall that this is the crucial phrase that transformed this story into a parable.
But there is something else about it.
Job Title Blues
I’d put on that coat, head out back, and wander through those somber gray days of my youth…