To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn. The legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire that followed the enthronement of Constantine (A.D. 312) seemed like a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here His classmates would never have voted him Most Likely to Succeed. He pressed the scales at something like 300 pounds. He was shy and spoke slowly, if he happened to speak at all. His fellow students mocked him in Latin as bos mutus, “the dumb ox.” His mentor Albert (who would… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Skellig Michael is a special place. For centuries this tiny crag of an island about 7 miles southwest of Ireland was known chiefly as the reclusive home of thousands of seabirds and a handful of monks. In December 2015 it became known the world over as that incredibly strange and beautiful… Read more »
