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November 2017

November 17, 2017

Dark Devotional: When Letting Go is Holding On

“My dishonesty with myself and others hinders the honesty of all humanity, hinders the progress...

November 10, 2017

Wisely Keeping Vigil, a Dark Devotional

The inarticulate moans came from a closed bedroom door at my elderly cousin’s house...

November 05, 2017

Dark Devotional: The Book of Judith

White scar like thread runs up and down my wrist, not because I tried...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Dark Devotional: Playing Both Sides

The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent...

October 15, 2017

Dark Devotional: Being a Wave

“I have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that I am...

October 06, 2017

Dark Devotional: In Praise of the Wild Grapes

It’s hard to write when you’re hugely distracted by really entertaining friends. The type of...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Dark Devotional: Saint Paul Say WHAT?

I love to pray. I love to spend time with God, in silence, in community,...

September 23, 2017

Dark Devotional: Remain in the Flesh

I feel a little grandiose saying my life is necessary for anyone’s benefit, but the...

September 14, 2017

Dark Devotional: That’s the Wrong Baby

How do I forgive someone from my heart, when my heart still stings and I...

September 09, 2017

Dark Devotional: D’Angelo and the Thief Who Stole Heaven

Original art by Brian C. Jocks Four thoughts on this Sunday's lectionary: ON THE PRESENCE...

September 01, 2017

Dark Devotional: Get Behind Me, Satan!

From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

My Daily Bread-lessness: A Celiac Sufferer’s Prayerbook

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not...

August 25, 2017

Dark Devotional: A Wild Messiah

`` I still remember the first time I read The Chronicles of Narnia, about...

August 18, 2017

Dark Devotional: Even the Dogs

... a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, "Have pity on...

August 12, 2017

Dark Devotional: Who Will You Call When You’re Drowning?

I want to tell you a story. I want to tell you a...

August 04, 2017

Dark Devotional: Hold Fast and Light Your Lamps

My Friends, I’m tired of living. I don’t mean this is a suicidal...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Dark Devotional: Creating From the Wound

I live in Los Angeles, the epicenter of self-defining artists. And, like most people in...

July 20, 2017

Dark Devotional: Worthy

My first memory is of flushing my father’s drugs down the toilet. I was 3,...

July 14, 2017

Dark Devotional: Alive With Decay

Seed work is work for the dark. It is growth to be entrusted to soil...

July 07, 2017

Dark Devotional: Missing Your Own Party

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June 2017

June 30, 2017

Dark Devotional: Toxic Love

Following Christ often appears insane. It seems to contradict all the things this world tells...

June 22, 2017

Dark Devotional: The Mystery of Persecution

In a world dominated by selfishness and the pursuit of their own interests, those who...

June 16, 2017

Trapped in the Nightmare: A Bloomsday Dark Devotional

June 16 is Bloomsday -- a special day for Irish literary geeks, on which fans...

June 10, 2017

Dark Devotional: Frankenstein and the Most Holy Trinity

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship...

June 02, 2017

Dark Devotional: Speak My Language

I don’t sound very Christian. That’s what I was told after I proudly mentioned to...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Dark Devotional: Go and Make a Mess of Things

Could it be that our weakness is exactly what the power of the Gospel needs...

May 19, 2017

Dark Devotional: Don’t Lay Your Hands on Me

I was delivered! I was free! After all, hands were laid on me and demons...

May 12, 2017

Dark Devotional: Three Ways to Survive the Mother’s Day Homily

Dear Catholic Women, If none of your children have any embarrassing quirks, or if your...

May 06, 2017

Dark Devotional: Fulton Sheen at Heaven’s Gate

My mind makes that leaping turn again into the memory of myself as boy, his...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Dark Devotional: About All the Things

Ostensibly, I created all my social media accounts to keep in touch with friends and...