A Wondrous Exchange
On Christmas, we learn that God is absolute, total, self-emptying love.
St. Luke the Stylist
Luke provides drama, humor, and poignant moments. Amid all his other achievements, he is one of the most elegant stylists in the pages of Scripture.
An apology for ‘Happy Holidays’
I wonder if the broader “Happy Holidays” might be the more accurate and even more Christian greeting.
The marriage of Mary and Joseph
On the importance of remembering Joseph’s obedience
12 days with the paradoxical Word
Few preachers handle well both the temporal birth and the eternal begetting of the Son of God. One of them wrote in Latin in the middle of the fifth century, yet without passing along his name.
Good and evil, Scrooge and Cosby
None of us are either good persons or bad persons. All of us are persons who do both good things and bad things. All of us are flawed, sinful persons, whether we are Ebenezer Scrooge or Bill Cosby.
He has her eyes
A simple question. Does Jesus have Mary’s eyes? Does he have her smile? Does he have that same odd expression she makes when she can’t quite get the jelly jar open? Jesus, Son of God and son of Mary, likely did and does look like his mother. What does that, something so simple and so familiar and so quotidian, mean for us?