Noah, Mythology, and the Absentee God
With Darren Aronofsky’s Noah out in theaters, one of the major questions that’s been floating around is: Is the film accurate? The answer, honestly, depends…
reading scripture
How do I read the Bible when it seems so outdated and uninteresting?
Because the Bible was written so long ago and in a culture so foreign to our own, it’s a tough book to try to pick…
Seeing Myself in Jesus’ Death and Resurrection
Every year Catholics commemorate Jesus’ death and resurrection in worship. On Holy Thursday we remember the Last Supper and the gift Jesus gave to us…
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. — Socrates
FAST from television today. PRAY — practice lectio divina (sacred reading) — during some of the time you would normally have been watching TV. GIVE…
Busted: Mary Gordon
Having spent more than three decades chronicling Catholic life as an author of novels, short stories, essays, memoirs and biographies, Mary Gordon decided to take…
What Works: Your Internal Compass
I’ve written several columns here with suggestions that are rather directive — get enough sleep, use the downturn to find your calling, meditate regularly… and…
Time for Nothing
We each have a breaking point. I reached mine one recent Sunday morning when, just before noon, I realized that I’d been awake for four…
