“Sometimes it’s only when we take one step past prudence and are willing to trade the certain for the uncertain...that we get to discover for ourselves just how vast and deep and unending are the resources of our great God.”
Life on the Limb: Choosing God — May 29, 2016
"Beginning today and during these five weeks—we’re spending time with another truth-teller—one of the most unusual characters in all of Scripture—the prophet Elijah. Elijah is something of a legend—we always talk about him with a kind of reverence—but he was also wonderfully human. James in the New Testament tells us that Elijah was—quote—“a man just like us.” He was human—sometimes he was lonely—sometimes he was angry—depressed—afraid . . . But he ALSO had this huge capacity for trusting GOD."
To Live in Awe — May 22, 2016
“We will never be awe-struck by anything under our own management. Maybe that's why Psalm 8 invites us to look to the stars which are so completely beyond our control…”
Choosing Life — May 15, 2016
"…if a church and a parish go out into the world, then once outside they might suffer the same fate as anybody else who goes out—they might have an accident. Well, in that case, between a sick church, closed in on itself, and a bruised church—I prefer the bruised, because at least it went into the street." (Pope Francis)
Easter People: Practicing Generosity — May 8, 2016
“Easter people don’t clench—our hands, our lives or our love. Easter people pour it out. Why? Because the Christ we belong to, who healed and taught and had kids hanging off of him like possums; the same Christ who ate with outcasts and said to sinners, ‘I don’t condemn you’; this same Jesus—when it came to his own life and love—threw them down, gave them away, poured them out.”