Tag: Lent

I thought I would favor you with a very interesting discussion of the assassination of Julius Caesar. The Rest is History is the podcast of two historians who are absolutely my

“Time,” the man said, “is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” Another way of looking at the same thing is Arnold Toynbee’s remark that some people think

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

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

Jesus is the Word made flesh, not the Word made word. When God chose to save us, he did it, not by sending Thoughts and Prayers, but by becoming a

The gospel for Ash Wednesday comes to us straight out of the Jewish tradition in which Jesus was born and raised and which his Holy Spirit taught Israel to observe.