From Richard Beck's book, unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality . Finally, consider the attribute of negativity ...

From the gospel of Mark: A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve...

Because this drawing is explicitly violent, I recommend you read the background information to better understand what it is about: The ide...

From Richard Beck's book, unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality . As the self gets symbolically extended so does...

It happened that as he made his way toward Jerusalem, he crossed over the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten...

What should be the church's "business as usual? What have you experienced it to be? Churches and Christians often act as i...

From Miroslav Volf's book Exclusion and Embrace : Consider, second, God’s partiality . In the biblical traditions, when God looks at a...

Fr. Ron Rolheiser, omi, wrote: "The great Jewish prophets, the forerunners of Jesus, coined a mantra which ran something like thi...

Richard Beck on his blog has an excellent post about Lady Gaga and how she embodies the gospel: In short, in this song [Bad Kid] Gaga is...

From Richard Beck's book, unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality . Regarding a study which (put briefly) investigat...

Once in a while, Pastor Stickman's resistance to wearing his reading glasses does him good. And further to dog's love for us, ...

Why is it that the "gay = sin" card so often trumps the "love your neighbour as yourself" card? I realize that so...

I couldn't resist posting this image from www.postsecret.com  (week of January 21/12). It illustrates how we sometimes judge people b...