Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Windows into Waiting
Contributors from all over America reflect on the theme of longing and silence in their experiences of the Advent season.
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Culture • Popular Culture
On “Silence” and More
“But did he hear their screams?” My wife Meg is named after two martyrs who lost their lives during the horrible “killing times” of Scotland in the 17th-century. Two Margarets, one an older woman and the other a girl, were staked in the bay as the tide came in, condemned to death for their refusal...
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Liturgical Reflections
Gary Black on Why “Silence” Matters at Christmas
Now, but not yet. Everyone everywhere, sons of Adam and daughters of Eve that we are, sees the same world, and tries to make sense. We don’t have to be philosophers to do that; in fact sometimes philosophers miss it badly. What is required is that we be human beings— ordinary men and women who...
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Faith • Biblical Reflections
Missio on Gen. 3: I Once Was Blind…: The Visual Effects of the Fall
“I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.” John Newton, “Amazing Grace” The Fall crippled our vision in two ways: it blinded us to the glory of God born in us and in the world, and it enlightened us to painful self-awareness, self-consciousness, and shame. Consider how vision plays into...
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Faith • Biblical Reflections
Maybe Mary’s Right, but Martha’s Me
Although I’ve read the story of Mary and Martha many times, I’ve never found it to be one of my favorite stories in the Bible. I’ve never really asked myself why it bothers me, but I know that it does. However, after recently reading The Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson, I am learning...
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Who Are We, Anyway?
“What are the Japanese peasants looking for in me? These people who live and work and die like beasts find for the first time in our teaching a path in which they can cast away the fetters that bind them…. for a long time they have lived in resignation to such a fate.” The Washington...
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