a world lives in you
It’s surprising, really the way it rattles the ribcage and then leaps into the lungs. missing. missing and needing. especially on days like today the missing and needing arrive when face to face...
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The church calendar calls into consciousness the existence of a world uninhabited by efficiency, a world filled with the excessiveness of saints, ashes, smoke, and fie; it fills my heart with both...
View Articlewe must beware
We must beware lest we violate the holy, Lest our dogmas over think the mystery, Lest our psalms sing it away. The right of interpretation is given only to the one who covers his face, “afraid to look...
View Articlea people who tell the truth | thoughts on ash wednesday
It occurred to me while getting a cross of ash smeared over my brow, hearing the words, “from dust you came, and to dust you will return,” that one of the things I appreciate the most about the faith...
View Articlegood men and the practice of resistance [PART 1]: a guest post by Wes Gristy
There’s a line in a song called The Resistance by Josh Garrels that haunts me. It comes at the end of the first verse. After poetically describing the power structures of this world that abuse the...
View Articlepeople we need
Every so often we find the people we realize we have no way of operating without Every so often we discover that there are people we need to work to think to believe to hope to persevere to dream to...
View Articlethe best of us and the worst of us
we act our bestwhen we know we need to and it’s not completely a lie but rather an appearance that only shows the things we are most proud of in ourselves. so at work at events in conversations...
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