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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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 […]