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September 2022

September 11, 2022

A Long Rapture?: A Short Meditation on 9/11

On this day of national mourning, those lives lost twenty-one years ago burn in our...

June 2022

June 21, 2022

On Juneteenth: A Heart for Hidden Suffering

[To extend the celebration of Juneteenth a bit, I re-present a piece written in 2020,...

April 2022

April 16, 2022

We Suffer, so Jesus Suffers: Trinity Must Swallow Hell

Suffering forces us into a tight space, like a stone tomb, as the etymology of...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Heart Conceives Heart

Today, in hiddenness and smallness, the axis-tree of the world is replanted in an abyss...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

A Poem for Ukraine and the Whole Agonized World

At the Frontier Above the fighter jet, There is an azure dome; Below, the...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

On the Pro-Life Direction of Providence: The Christian Withdrawal from Killing

[This was originally published at Ethika Politika on 17 January 2019. At the moment, the...

April 02, 2021

Delivery Day

If we have eyes to see and ears to hear, is the maternity of Jesus...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Whither the House of David?

Is there such a thing is a kingdom without end? Would we even want such...

December 13, 2020

Advent: Movie Trailer III

In a world full of suffering, violence, slavery, and death… A new day is about...

December 08, 2020

The Woman Who Says I AM

In Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Lourdes, the...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

On the Pro-Life Direction of Providence: The Christian Withdrawal from Killing

The Old Testament promises of salvation for those who admit their guilt may be offered...

November 27, 2020

Imagine Being Part of a Church

Imagine a church directed from the bottom up, and where the voices of clergy didn't...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

Fasting from Mass Idolatry

It was so easy for me. After several years of constantly wrestling with the question,...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

A Woman Without Shame

The Spirit breathed something wondrous: a girl with the perfect knowledge of good and evil...

December 11, 2019

Our Beloved Dogma

“Dogma is like Sandy Dog – it doesn’t change,” I told my 11-year-old trying to...

December 06, 2019

Saved from What?

“Let me in,” says Jesus, knocking on a door, in a popular meme. “Why?” replies...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

God Didn’t Send You That “Cross”

God doesn’t send anyone a cross to bear. How many times have you heard the...

September 02, 2019

Mystical Theology Needs Liberation Epistemology

Mystical theology seems to have become a lost art in Western Christianity, at least from...

August 2019

August 06, 2019

Jiminy Cricket, Another Mass Shooting!

Why are these massacres occurring with crushing and accelerating frequency? I can’t help but perceive...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

Asylum Song

Half Taiwanese, half white, I heard from random strangers, both black and white, growing up...

July 04, 2019

We are Know-Somethings: On the American Declaration of the Equal Dignity of Every Human

Happy Independence Day to you all! Political self-determination is a human necessity because it gives...

July 02, 2019

The Bible: Insipid, Inspired, or Inspiring?

When we read the Bible, what are we looking for? Clarity? Instruction? Inspiration? Whatever we...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

The Blessed Redundancy of the Advocate

I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

Belonging to God’s Household

In the grand arc of Scripture, we see again and again that there are two...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Betrothed to God at a Price

This Triduum that just passed, I was abundantly blessed to be able to hear the...

April 13, 2019

The Third Person of the Trinity and a Third Way of Prayer

To continue the series on ways of deepening our relationship with the Holy Spirit, I...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

Seeking the Spirit with a Pure Heart

The Holy Spirit will not allow Himself to be used. God never acts like a...

March 07, 2019

A Perpetual Witness to Christ

Most of the Passion of Perpetua is told in her own voice, written by her...

February 2019

February 24, 2019

In the End is the Beginning

Jürgen Moltmann’s book on eschatology, The Coming of God, came to my hands again recently....

February 18, 2019

Inviting the Holy Spirit: Marian Consecration

Why are we starting off a series about inviting the Holy Spirit to take up...