Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year 4, NL)

Psalm 34 is like balm to the weary spirit and nourishment to the hungry soul.

This psalm is hard to take.

The disciples remember every miracle that Jesus did, every truth that he proclaimed.

The church doesn’t always value people as God does. Not even Mary.

Before judging individuals for their sin, we should try to understand the forces of evil influencing them.

Communion is not the only time we seek Jesus like a hungry baby.

People must have gasped when Jesus opened his mouth and said 'I am.'

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied a meal at a Virginia restaurant. I wonder who's welcome at our table.

Because my yearning comes from somewhere, and that somewhere must be you.

How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?

In our Gospel text, some of Jesus’ disciples find his teaching hard. Eating his body? Drinking his blood? I didn’t sign up for this. Couldn’t I just pray for you?

I often think I hear colleagues asking, “How could we attract nuns to our church?” Actually they’re talking about “the nones,” of course. One of the clearest findings of the Pew Forum’s new religious landscape study is that fewer and fewer people have any religious affiliation at all. Catholics and mainline Protestants show the biggest drop. 

I feel pretty conflicted about all of this.

Social microhistories can capture big ideas. I’d like to write one on pickles, which are as fundamental to civilization as anything in Chesterton’s pockets.