COMMENTARY

Huge stones, locked doors and the Resurrection

Soren Kierkegaard once wrote that the Gospel he identified with is when the disciples locked themselves into an upper room ...

Reflecting on Jesus, the one who is to come

Are you the one who is to come? That plaintive question fills our hearts this Easter. 

How a former news anchor found guidance

The reality of Jesus’ Resurrection holds special significance for those who have recently lost a loved one and take comfort in the idea that they will someday be reunited again in heaven. 

What we ‘knead’ to know

In early March, I went to Sam's Club to stock up for the coming shelter-in-place order. 

Remembering that God’s ‘got the whole world in his hands’

My son slides onto the piano bench and starts to play. Decades ago, I sat at the same piano and plunked out the same tune. 

The road and the rainbow

The week before Ash Wednesday, I was driving home from San Diego when raindrops began to splash against my windshield.

The dispelling of an illusion

We don’t much like the word disillusionment. Normally we think of it as a negative and not as something that does us a favor. 

Choose what matters

It is "time to choose what matters and what passes away," Pope Francis told us March 27 when he spoke from the Vatican. 

The spiritual benefits of technology in a time of crisis

"Gather 'round the TV, kids, it's time to pray." Those are words I never thought I would utter as a Catholic media studies professor ...

Love lives in the sacred place called home

So, here we are. Stuck at home. For many, the situation is challenging, frustrating and claustrophobic.  

In life or death, we are safe in the hands of God

For me, April has always been the herald of newness, recalling memories of childhood Easters ...

In midst of death, we must uphold value of every human life

We find ourselves in the strangest of times: a surreal mix of sadness, fear and, at times, desperation.

Recognizing when it’s time to embrace weakness

In college, Shannon K. Evans joined a charismatic evangelical community. She met her husband Eric through that church, and they moved to Indonesia to become missionaries, ...

Offer up your COVID-19 sacrifices for the forgotten

As we watched the COVID-19 pandemic multiply throughout the country, I saw my Facebook account explode ... 

Love in the time of Covid-19

In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, “Love in the Time of Cholera.” 


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