Rooted Beyond Fear
Reflection for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Jeremiah 20:10-13 (RM) or 7-13 (RCL); Psalm 69; Romans 5: 12-15 (RM) or 6: 1b-11 (RCL);…
RNDM Ireland Sisters at the Maori Camp, Waitara, 1945.
Let’s Celebrate Women!
Do we always have to wait until there is a special celebration or occasion to raise the status of women? At one stage in society, after World War II, women…
Holiness That Radiates Outward
Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time / Third Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Exodus 19: 1-6a (RM in Canada) or 2-6a (RM in the U.S.) or 2-8a (RCL); Psalm…
The Blooming Golden Padauk: Seeing the Father in the Midst of Chaos
“Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” — John 14:9 Lately, God has been whispering the profound truth of these words to me—not merely through Scripture, but through…
Made Flesh: The Intimacy of Divine Presence
Reflection for Corpus Christi / Body and Blood of Christ or Second Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Deuteronomy 8: 2-3, 14-16 (RM) or Hosea 5: 15 – 6:6 (RCL); Psalm 147…
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in an interview with Stephen Colbert during a taping of “The Colbert Report,” with military families of troops deployed to Afghanistan as part of the audience, at the Colbert Report Studio in New York, N.Y., April 11, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
Hello, Hello: Stephen Colbert and a Culture of Encounter
I have been an episodic viewer of “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert. After all, it *is* LATE. However, when his program was cancelled by CBS, I began recording his…
Born from Darkness and Water
Reflection for Trinity Sunday A Readings: Exodus 34: 4b-6, 8-9 (RM) or Genesis 1:1-2:4a (RCL); Canticle from Daniel 3 (RM) or Psalm 104 (RCL); 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13 (RM) or…
A Strange Passion
A few months ago, I was at my favourite bookstore hoping to spend a gift card. On a shelf the cover of a book with the title The Soul of…
Pentecost: The Spirit That Sets Free
The Feast of Pentecost Readings: Acts 2:1-11 (RM) or 1-21 (RCL); Psalm 104; 1 Corinthians 12: 3b-7, 12-13 (RM) or 3b-13 (RCL); John 20: 19-23. There’s Pentecost and then there’s,…
Hope is Happening: Centering Resilience, Recovery and Healing
One morning, a couple weeks ago, an Instagram post caught my eye: “After decades of decline, Africa’s elephant mega-herds are making a comeback across southern Africa.”1 Really?? I shook my…
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