William Lynch on Hope, Confusion, and Hoplessness
Yesterday, in my course: Faith, Reason, and Culture, we began our Christology unit by looking at the parables, and unpacking them with the use of a particular method I generated […]
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Invitation to Wisdom
For the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. חָ֭כְמוֹת (khokmoth), the feminine noun, Wisdom. Lady Wisdom. I suppose if there is a patroness of this site, wisdom&culture, it is indeed Lady […]
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Love as Fulfilment
For the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Language is fascinating. One of my favourite joys is being blown away and astonished by a word, or a phrase. The gift of […]
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Feeling Truly Alive
For the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time. I recently heard a joke that was rather dry and pretty grim, so of course I thought it was fantastic. It went something […]
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An Imagination Worthy of the Eucharist
For the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There is actually a surprising difficulty in discerning how to speak of this very well-known ‘miracle of the loaves and the fishes’. That […]
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The Power to be Brought Low and Raise Up
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time When the time comes for me to talk about Jesus’s ‘miracles’ in my courses, I always get a little bit uncomfortable—every semester, every time, despite […]
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A Voice in the Wilderness
For the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist. One of the most common difficulties I see people struggling with is a sense of meaninglessness, or purposelessness, and all […]
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Borders and the Gospel
For the Vigil of the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist. There has been much discussion of borders and the term ‘humanitarian crisis’ has been ubiquitous; for years […]
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Growing Like a Weed
The timing of this Sunday’s readings, at least in this part of the world, is quite appropriate, since the overarching theme is about remarkable growth. Many of us are growing […]
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Plastic Facts and Retrogression
Going back through a few books in order to come up with an idea for a conference paper I have to give, I stumbled across this passage and it struck […]