
How the Dark Night of Society & Earth Meets Advent
In yesterday’s DM, we meditated on Rilke’s powerful poem about the darkness, the via negativa, that is integral to the season of Advent. It has
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In yesterday’s DM, we meditated on Rilke’s powerful poem about the darkness, the via negativa, that is integral to the season of Advent. It has

Today marks one month since Americans voted to return Trump to the White House. For me, and for many, it has been a time of processing

Ten days ago a majority of Americans linked hands with Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Putin–the first invader of a European sovereign nation since WWII. Now many

Are we really made for these times? Are we up to it spiritually? What does it take spiritually speaking to be up for times like ours? Can we

There is a grief ritual that I can heartily recommend at this time of profound distress and dread and even doom. But also potential grace. I

It is sometimes said that wisdom comes with old age. Well, it comes from the young too and the Scriptures speak to that and I am

Let me turn to my brother G. Thomas Fox’s book linking uncertainty and “becoming edGe-ucated.” It strikes me as being very, very timely. I began my book

Thomas Aquinas teaches that despair is the “most dangerous” of all sins. It is not the worst—injustice is—but it is the most dangerous. Why? Because when a person

T. S. Eliot says this about the mystics: “Mystics are the only hope—or else despair.” The mystic offers medicine for despair and confronts it–despair in oneself,

As I write this, my sister-in-law lies very near to death, having just received the last rites of the Catholic Church. Her family has gathered in
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