Sometimes, all you can do is wail.
Every Lent, my mind returns to the image of tears. I think of the prophet Jeremiah, weeping under imperial subjugation an...
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...
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...
Today's Reading: Matthew 9:14-38
What is our default response to suffering? I think our response in times of suffering shows the trueness of our faith, and t...
On December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza entered an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and fatally shot twenty children and six ad...
Today's reading is John 19:28-42 (NRSV):
28 After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty...
Today's reading is John 17:1-26 (NIV):
Jesus Prays to Be Glorified.
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has ...
Today's Advent Reading:
USCCB - December 5th
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“Deliverance is near to those who worship him,
so that glory may dwell in our land.
Love and faithfulness ha...
Catch, transfer, cut, return. As I genotype my 96th mutant zebrafish of the day, I barely even think of the protocol. After evading the net for far too long, th...
Two nights ago I half-choked.
I was in Quincy dining hall at Harvard, eating a celebratory dinner with two friends. A few minutes into our dinner, as I scar...
