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Rational response or irrational?
When we paused the movie, my 7 year-old got in her pajamas without prompting. In that moment, I thought about how I actually miss the fights. The bedtime fights. The I don’t want to put on my pajamas I hate brushing teeth And Please can’t I stay up later Fights No fights. She just does…
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The hard message of a simple love
To love as Jesus says and does Easter 6B | John 15:9-17 All You Need is Love? We are once again in John 15, which is part of this book’s accounting for Jesus’s final teaching at the last supper. Whereas Mark, Matthew, and Luke have Jesus get right down to the point, giving them…
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Jesus Divides Parents and Children
In tomorrow’s gospel from Luke (12:49-56), we get a most striking vision of a pissed off Jesus complaining about His burdens and claiming (in my 21st Century voice) You think I’m the bringer of peace! Idiots! I bring conflict! It is a hard enough gospel to take, and my (very different) homily will go up…
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Under Water
Wordless Wednesday
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Parents: Crying It Out Is Not Best
As parents, we have all been there. There has never been a child that G-d has given us that hasn’t cried for what feels like a little too long or at seemingly just the wrong time. All parents have felt this stress. And every parent has lost it. I remember a specific instance in which…
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Bad Science, Infant Cereal, and Church Tradition
In her post, “Why Ditch The Infant Cereals?” KristenM at Food Renegade makes a compelling case for not giving cereal to babies before they are one year-old. The case is made of two important arguments: 1) What is developmentally and biologically appropriate and 2) There is no “traditional” basis for it. Against these two arguments,…
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I had no idea I, too was going to hell!
David R. Henson wrote today about a missed opportunity to attack evil: evil in the form of stay-at-home dads. We are clearly where sin resides. Read about it here!
