Tag: Daily Reading

In the common way of looking at things heaven is a place you go after you die (if you’ve been good). And I suppose that

See, Christian soul, here is the strength of your salvation, here is the cause of your freedom, here is the price of your redemption. You

I can explain why heaven makes no sense, why the most logical response to the human condition is despair, why the future that lies ahead

The cross is the abyss of wonders, the centre of desires, the school of virtues, the house of wisdom, the throne of love, the theatre

In the garden Christ gently but deliberately says to Mary Magdalene, “Noli me tangere.” “Do not touch” is a misleading translation that deprives us of

April 17 I do not know—none of us does—what it must have been like to have a dead man materialize through the wall of a

April 16 I am very sure that so long as we are caught in time, we will never be able to see heaven, which I

April 14 Practicing resurrection means living in openness. It’s a vulnerable attitude. Jesus invites Thomas to examine his wounds—come and see the ugliest thing you

April 13 Wendell Berry, the great environmentalist poet-theologian, has written a piece about somebody he calls a “mad farmer” who goes around shouting, “Practice resurrection!”

April 12 This is where it gets scary. The resurrection only makes sense as God’s “showing his hand” about the meaning of the cross. So