On the Tension Between Christ’s Demand for Perfection and Mercy
This is what the dogmatic perfectionists on social media (whether right wing obsessives about a few pelvic issues or left wing utopian puritans) don’t ever seem to get and the
This is what the dogmatic perfectionists on social media (whether right wing obsessives about a few pelvic issues or left wing utopian puritans) don’t ever seem to get and the
“I want to also mention a very difficult subject … before you, with complete candor. It should be discussed amongst us, yet nevertheless, we will never speak about it in
Item: The MAGA Freak Show is jam-packed with anti-semites like this. That’s because their orange god is an anti-semite. Don’t let their use of support for Netanyahu as a human
Psalm 32, the first of the great penitential psalms, reads in part: I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my
Here’s just a taste. Go to his Substack to read the whole thing: Driving, Prayer and Finding God in Silence I do some of my best thinking on my drive
Throughout Lent, we observe the ancient Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—that passed into the Christian Tradition and were transformed by that Tradition’s encounter with the incarnate, crucified, and
Jesus finishes his discussion of the three Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—with an utterly consistent emphasis on fasting for God and not for human acclaim: “And when you
We now move on in our Lenten series to discuss the third of the Jewish acts of piety that Jesus instructs us to observe: fasting. Actually, to be precise, Jesus
At the outset of this Lenten series, I remarked on the truly cosmic dimension of what our Faith teaches about the nature of the universe in which we live. My
If the first Lenten discipline Jesus discusses in the Sermon on the Mount is almsgiving, the biggest (at least by word count) discipline he discusses is prayer (Matthew 6:5-15). I
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