My arms pull at the water, followed quickly by a frog-kick, legs pushing the water. Lifting my head and seeing the pool wall distantly ahead of me, I will my l...
I have started crying a lot recently. Think needing to drink twice as much water as usual, eyes never quite stop being red, absolute water works type of a lot...
I’m not the type to listen to Christmas music out of season, but I read the Christmas story year-round. The angel’s proclamation — I bring you good news of gr...
I’ve never had or desired a lot, and my research on income inequality this summer supplemented the feelings of my heart and my mind as a Christian. It proved t...
In late August, the day before classes started, I went to mass at a monastery in Vilnius, Lithuania. I sat in the back pew, at the very end of a row of girls d...
“And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of their food with exultation and s...
God rests. He also reflects.
I have heard several sermons present a case for the Godly nature of rest, pointing out that from the beginning, God set a...
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law?...
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...
