Sole Searching: Murr-ma
It’s just a fragmentary memory from my childhood in our Co Wicklow town at the seaside. I’m knee deep in…
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Ancestors One Day: Notes with a Old Fountain Pen
I made notes for this thought for the day using a fountain pen. I started using fountain pens more than…
Encounters with Difference #PopeinIreland
On a cabin porch high in the mountains I watched a hummingbird. I heard it before I saw it, the…
Laurel or Yanny? A Word on Generosity to the Presbyterian Church
In our house we were evenly split between yanny and laurel.* Personally, I was a yanny man, but my wife heard laurel. I…
Peace in a Locked-in Place, Reflections on John 20:19-20
The regular cycle of bible readings known as the Lectionary keeps us in familiar territory as the Easter season unfolds.…
The Raw Materials of Faith: Body
Reflection 3 New Creation The first creation story in Genesis 1 tells us that God created humankind in God’s image.…
The Raw Materials of Faith: Body
Reflection 2 Jesus—the Second Incarnation There is a second incarnation, the one we’re more familiar with, when God himself steps down…
The Raw Materials of Faith: Body
Creation—The First Incarnation The word incarnation is one we tend to confine to one particular season of the year. It’s…
Releasing a Man from Violence 6: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
I wonder if our struggle to make sense of this strange story, beyond the simplistic “Jesus heals us” bit, is…
Releasing a Man from Violence 5: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
Then finally, again, there is the healed man. The story ends where it began with the man begging Jesus again…