Minute Meditations

The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins crystallized so beautifully the effect that John Duns Scotus’ teaching has on mystical minds: Yet ah! this air I gather and releaseHe lived on;These weeds and waters, these walls are whatHe hauntedWho of all ...

Downward mobility. It invites each of us to recalibrate.

It wasn’t until God’s people utilized the lesson from the desert that they made Jericho’s walls fall to the ground.

Fear is human. It's universal. It's almost become a companion for some in these fractured times.

Maybe it’s my brain chemistry. I have no idea. But one of the things I’m always trying to remember whether it’s guilt, whether it’s shame, whether it’s regret, whether it’s future tripping, whatever it may be, when I slip into ...

Like Christ, who died upon another tree, our beloved oak tree had to expire in order to inspire.