• Christmas isn’t supposed to be convenient

    Christmas isn’t supposed to be convenient

    This time of year, we can get frustrated by how inconvenient normal things become. Take the opportunity to reflect on that.

  • God’s deal with Joseph

    God’s deal with Joseph

    The Holy Family is our family. And God shows us that we are part of a project that thrives on making room for the new.

  • Repeating good words

    Repeating good words

    We can rewire our brains toward good things. Or find ourselves rewired by what we experience. Words are powerful.

  • Racism

    Racism

    Episode 47 of the Make Saints podcast

  • All About Joseph?

    All About Joseph?

    The gospel for Advent 4A gives us Joseph’s angelic encounter while deciding about Mary when most of us are thinking Christmas.

  • It’s not just doing the right thing

    It’s not just doing the right thing

    We often read the challenge Joseph faces as doing the “right” thing. What the angel invites them all into is something new.

  • Angels & encountering the divine

    Angels & encountering the divine

    The question offered by the angel encounters that surround Jesus’s birth is not what we would do, but what we do.

  • How the political binary breaks our brains.

    How the political binary breaks our brains.

    We think we’re searching for the truth. But when we use binary (either/or) thinking, we are setting up competition.