“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the...
image description: chairs in Branford Courtyard at Yale
In the thick of my second, and definitively more challenging, semester at Yale, I am becoming increa...
Luke 13:30 “And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
In our modern, consumption-based culture, the idea that we ar...
Forty days. That’s the length of time Christ spent in the Judaean Desert, fasting and praying in solitude. In the accounts contained in the gospels of Matthew,...
When I close my eyes to pray, I find myself standing alone in the desert outside of Jerusalem. I am looking up at Christ’s body on the Cross. It is dark; the a...
TW: eating disorders
The day before Lent begins is known as Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), Shrove Tuesday, Fastnachtsdienstag and many other names around the wor...
The Lenten season commemorates the 40 days that Jesus fasted and was tested in the desert before He started His public ministry, in anticipation of Easter Sund...
As we near the end of Advent and see the beginning of yet another coronavirus variant accompanied with rising cases, we may be feeling despondent. The words of...
This week our authors dealt with the theme of impatience. Ethan Hooper wrote about his frustration in waiting for God to suddenly appear, like the way God blin...
Recently I have been reminded that God’s work is not limited to any particular scale; He is Lord over the geopolitical, the world-historical, the rise and fall...
Antonio in Rudolfo Anaya’s book, Bless Me, Ultima, is impatient. He pushes himself to be a devout Catholic and becomes the priest of his friend group at age se...
This week on the Ichthus’ 2021 Advent blog we had a meditation by Owen Sughrue on how to approach ‘doing good’ while we see evildoers prosper around us.
Bry...
“But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.” — Malachi 3:15 NIV
Thoug...
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the first day of a period of watching and waiting. Advent is also the church’s new year where the cycle of the lectionary ...
Time is a rainbow
gestating in the stale air,
a forgotten vow,
a winter song
that wavers in the etherized silence;
its long arc bends
toward a dusky fie...
On my desk sit two plants. On the left, a swiss cheese plant I picked up at Brattle Street Florist with waxy leaves and elliptical holes. On the right, a dying...
In his Confessions, St. Augustine famously wrote, “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” We all ha...
Sensible shoes, newly purchased Harvard shirts, and the placebo shutter of a smartphone camera… I’ve become part of the photographable attraction for yet anoth...
Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov leads a double life. The protagonist of Anton Chekhov’s short story The Lady with the Dog stretches himself between two places. In Moscow...
The Bible is a book about wine. Water and wine, to be more precise. Wine, the most versatile and refined alcohol, and water, the most salutary chaser. Called t...
Bells ring from Jerusalem’s church spires in the evenings. If you stand on tiptoe on the shower ledge of a hotel bathroom and look through the half-open skylig...
Passion Week is the time each year when Christians commemorate Jesus’ ministry in Jerusalem and His suffering and death on the cross. In this period of prayerf...
“See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him — his appearance was so ...
Psalm 20 verse 1 says “May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.”
Protection is a powerful thing. The ...
Why do we mourn? Has God not conquered death? Why do we fast? Has God not filled the hungry with good things? Why, when Christ has overcome the grave, when the...
How often have I found myself in the place of the disciples in today’s Gospel reading, where they do not understand Jesus when He foretells His death for the t...
In Isaiah 43, Yahweh instructs the people of Israel to serve as “witnesses” to the world that He alone is God. A few millennia later, the Jesus followers of to...
Since coming to college, I’ve noticed an emphasis on self-care, which I understand to mean the actions one takes to preserve one’s own health and well-being. ...
Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way...
