Testing is a part of life. It was certainly a part of Jesus’ life. Luke’s reflective narrative on testing brings us to the recognition that testing can take many different forms and take place at many different times in our...
Lead Us Not into Temptation is a daily devotional/ study for Lent on the subject—we should say, the experience—of temptation. Jesus taught us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation,” which mysteriously implies that God could, and perhaps sometimes does....
“Look,” I said, index finger tapping a dictionary entry, “‘Lent,’ in its root word, means ‘spring.’” My two young sons glanced out the window at the snowcovered yard. “That means Lent is a time for us, like other living things...
As I write this I am sitting in my parents’ living room in the wee hours of the morning. The only lights come from the computer screen and the twinkling glow of the Christmas tree. I have finally settled my...
Cloud Devotion is based upon The Cloud of Unknowing, one of the great classics of Christian spirituality. It was written in the middle of England perhaps near Nottingham, in the middle of the fourteenth century. The anonymous author wrote in the language of common people, not...
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More than a century has passed since Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) wrote these poems, yet they continue to draw readers as if they had first appeared only recently. This has much to do with their lyric beauty and with the...
Imagine entering a room and finding a beautifully wrapped present on a table. Attached to the present is a label that reads: “This present is for you but don’t open it now . . . wait.” An instruction like this...
Imagine a snowy evening in one of the old small towns of Austria, eleven miles north of Salzburg—in a little village called Oberndorf. The year is 1818. A schoolmaster and a priest are quickly rehearsing for Midnight Mass. Father Joseph...
