What separates us from Satan?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Leave it to a demon to understand the purity of Jesus—and to fear it. “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?,” the possessor of a human victim…
Sinatra’s Take on Jesus’ “My Way”
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The Western mind is rarely awestruck anymore. Even if Jesus were to appear and say something good and true and beautiful to someone on the street corner, that person might…
The Only Lodger Who Can Afford to Fill Our Vacancy
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We are born with a vacancy to fill. We can’t bear its emptiness. God sends us helpers throughout our life to find the right tenant, but our adolescent spirits start…
Can Jerusalem be More Than a Graveyard?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times—according to online sources. Today it is again the center of…
Can We be Holy AND Wholly Annoying?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Families can be SO annoying. Mutual agitation seems so embedded in human DNA that even ancient sages like Sirach had to pull back on our leashes as we started snapping…
Thinking outside the Dox
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) People wise to the ways of the world-wide-web know what it means to dox someone. Doxing is posting private and damaging documentation about an enemy. So, a newbie 21st Century…
Called to Vindication, Not Indictment
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “A man named John was sent from God. He came to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.” (JN 1:6-8) The priests and Levites of his…
Climb Time’s Ruins to Grasp the Timeless
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The technologies of construction and destruction teach us about two kinds of strategic bombing. Constructive bombing uses explosives to move earth, rock, or other materials to prepare the ground not…
Escape the Confines of Your Advent Calendar
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Many of us use an Advent-house calendar to prepare, day-by-day, for Christmas. Its 25 doors typically contain scripture readings or meditations to put us in the mind of God. But…
The Enemy of My Enemy is My God
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Sleek” is a double-edged sword of a word. It can be used as a backhanded compliment to say “You’re slick” (as a used-car salesperson). Or, it could be used to…