Momento Mori
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” I still remember the first time a priest said these words to me as he inscribed a cross of ash...
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Lenten Love
Lent: forty days of fasting. Jesus’s forty days in the wilderness, Noah’s forty days of rain, Moses’s forty days on Sinai, Elijah’s forty day walk to Horeb, Goliath’s...
Read MoreThe Ontology of Shame
They were naked and not ashamed (Genesis 2:25) I am not ashamed of the Gospel (Romans 1:16) We have all enjoyed being the purveyors of shame at one time or another....
Read MoreNothing but a Burning Light
The subtitle of this post should be: In which I raise a bunch of questions for which I have no answers. I was a child the first time I heard Bruce Cockburn’s cover of...
Read MoreSalvation: What is it Good for? Absolutely Nothing?
Why do you do what you do? How do you make a decision? If it is an important one perhaps you think it through, weigh the costs against the benefits. Do you try to...
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On the Wonder of the Incarnation
Redemption is one of the most fundamental concepts in the Christian religion. So basic is it to the biblical story that I’m not sure I can think of a...
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