The Music Department is an alternate universe where pupils are often unrecognizable from who they are outside of it. The shy become confident. The agitated become calm. The lonely become included. The quiet become heard. And the lost become found. Music reveals the...
We have in prayer a gift from God that allows us to approach the throne of the Sovereign of the Universe and make our requests known.
The God imaged by Jesus exerts no dominating supremacy. In Christ, we see an image of a God who is not armed with lightning bolts but with basin and towel, who spewed not threats but good news for all, who rode not a warhorse but a donkey, weeping in compassion for...
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Human One. Talk about an upside-down universe! I’m not happy when people hate me—and some people do hate me. Jesus is saying that we have to...
Was there a moment, known only to God, when all the stars held their breath, when the galaxies paused in their dance for a fraction of a second, and the Word, who had called it all into being, went with all his love into the womb of a young girl, and the universe...
I believe your image of God creates you—or defeats you. There is an absolute connection between how we see God and how we see ourselves and the universe.
Have you ever considered that God has fallen in love with you...? He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you sunshine every morning. Whenever you want to talk he listens to you. He can live anywhere in the universe, but he chose you, your heart. God didn't...
I see more clearly, now that I am aging. Not with my eyesight, but with my soul. I see the fine detail of what I missed in younger years. I see the place of faith and forgiveness in my story. I see the possibilities of life in ways I never imagined. I was not blind in...
Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...
If we had a microscope powerful enough, we could see that electrons, quarks, neutrinos, etc. are nothing but vibrations on minuscule loops resembling rubber bands. If we pluck the rubber band enough times and in different ways, we eventually create all the known...