Today’s reading is Luke 1:39-56:
39 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, 40 and she entered the house of Z...
This time of year, you hear it all the time: “Do you want to go do such-and-such fun thing tonight?” “No, sorry, I’m writing a thesis.” “Let’s have lunch someti...
Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about unanswered prayer—you know, the perennial question of what to think of a God who says “Knock, and the door will be...
A few days ago I happened to read one of the original versions of Beauty and the Beast. I love fairy tales, especially when they haven’t been chopped up and mad...
I have a problem: I’m terribly prideful. When I sit down to consider my life, I’m filled with a sort of warm, complacent glow at the thought that I’m such a bri...
Obedience is an uncomfortable subject. Our society isn’t set up in a way that makes obedience a particularly attractive virtue. We have to suppress a thrill of ...
Adultery is a great evil. This is an inescapable conclusion. And it is not a new conclusion to me—every reading of the Ten Commandments, every discussion of mar...
