• We aren’t herding cats

    We aren’t herding cats

    It sometimes seems impossible to motivate people to do what they don’t want to do. But cats have a way better excuse than we do.

  • Pitchers and Catchers Report

    Pitchers and Catchers Report

    Episode 68 of the Make Saints podcast

  • The real temptation

    The real temptation

    Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.

  • Tempted Again—for Lent 2B

    Tempted Again—for Lent 2B

    When Jesus says to Peter “Get behind me, Satan!” he’s resisting temptation; which means something Peter said tempts him.

  • The great tension at the heart of Lent 

    The great tension at the heart of Lent 

    What is going on for many of us in Lent is being told that we need self-control and then reading why control is a problem.

  • Between the First and Second Sunday of Lent (Year B)

    Between the First and Second Sunday of Lent (Year B)

    As Jesus offers his first Passion prediction, he does so knowing that the disciples are afraid to know what it is that they already know.

  • Into the Wild

    Into the Wild

    Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.

  • At the root of all temptation

    At the root of all temptation

    When we address the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness in the midst of church, do we dare confront what is at the root of it all?