The story of Noah’s ark is endlessly fascinating.
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Author: Other Voices
Ars praedicandi: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B, Ed Foley
Jesus of Nazareth was no pushover but he was no bully either. His core message was love; his continued witness was care; his ultimate act was total self-giving. It would be difficult to imagine a more incarnate version of empathy, genuineness, and respect in human history.
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Today’s homily at Mass with Joe Biden
A promise and a noble commission.
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Review Essay: The Pastor in a Secular Age
This is an articulate and wise theological reflection, the second in a trilogy Root has planned. It is often a very moving, thoughtful contemplation of ministry in a time where God seems unnecessary for many, when only the empirical is thought truthful and when truth itself has become questionable on the public stage.
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Ars praedicandi: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B, Ed Foley
Here am I, Lord, I come to do your will.
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Ars praedicandi: Feast of the Holy Family, Cycle B, Ed Foley
While our own stepping aside might not be as dramatic as Ian’s nor as final as Simeon’s nor as absolute at Jesus’ it, too, is our way to salvation.
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Hallmark Movies or Jesus? Alternate Christmas Narratives
Christmas celebrates, as Taft used to say, the “whole schmear.”
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Ars praedicandi: Christmas at Night, Cycle B, Ed Foley
Recovering the true spirit of the season, entering into an authentic Christmas spirituality, is not about jingle bells and jolliness or a fleeting good cheer that quickly evaporates in the new year. Rather, it is about crafting deep joy about building a sustainable peace, about a giftedness that pours itself out for others, no matter what the cost.
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“Hold On” Black Catholic Congregational Song
Black Catholics come from a lived theology where the music functions as a geographic teleportation. The song transports the singer to a new reality while singing the song.
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Liturgy, Covid 19, and My African Violets
When will this terrible time end? I look to my African violets for inspiration.
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