
Evil in the Christmas Story Yesterday and Today
Previous to the death of Pope Benedict, we were dealing with the deeper meanings of Advent and Christmas. The Christmas story does not just range
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Previous to the death of Pope Benedict, we were dealing with the deeper meanings of Advent and Christmas. The Christmas story does not just range

The Transfiguration event that we meditated on yesterday is recalled in all three synoptic gospels as well as Peter’s epistle (Matthew 17.1-8; Mark 9:2-9; Luke

Advent, as we considered a few weeks ago, is not just about humanity waiting to celebrate the birth of Jesus around 2000 years ago. It is also

Two days ago we celebrated Christmas in our DM with a meditation on what I called Doxa and Moxa, which become simple and direct ways to talk of the

Today is Christmas Eve. Today we begin to break the dark silence of Advent just as the post-solstice movement of the sun (which is actually the

Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to

In a chapter on “Politics and Religion,” Albert Nolan, as for many theologians who followed him, reminds us that the fact that Jesus was executed on

Yesterday I had the privilege of dialoging with Aramaic scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz with an audience of over 1200 people on zoom, he in Scotland where

Evil, as distinct from sin, is a Cosmic Event. It is big and affects many. This is why indigenous peoples are at home talking about “evil spirits”

Holy Saturday is often minimized, since the great events and archetypes of Good Friday and Easter Sunday that sandwich it get all the attention. In fact,
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