-

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

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

