I’ve always been a black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinker, which for the most part has not served me well — because most of life is lived and figured out in the gray areas. If I didn’t get an A on that assignment in college, then I failed. The cake I baked fell a little in the oven,...
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This liturgical season of Lent invites us to slow down and notice the Holy Spirit dwelling here, creating a home within us. Lent is a good season to allow God to make his home within us more intentionally, to be present with him wherever we are.
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A contributor from Missio Advent 2013 continues her story on #MissioAdvent 2014. "Surely the intrigue of visitors was the excitement of something new, something different entering our small world."
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Visitation connotes being with, not just knowing about, and then carrying one and one’s daily life more closely to heart after the visit. Is it too much of a stretch to say that God’s visitation also means that, in his gracious love, he wants to be with us?
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Whatever the state of your Bethlehem—whether your vocation is soaring or struggling, your family or social life is hectic or harmonious, or your soul is at peace or feels piecemeal—God offers his greatest gift to you too.
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Yesterday, a number of us from The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture had the privilege to sit at table with “a man from Galilee,” Archbishop Emeritus Elias Chacour, a man many people the world over call Abuna, or Father. It was not the first time I had met this holy man–for indeed, that...
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