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The Way Home

…so my thoughts about Carl Medearis and Kate Campbell continued, evidently, through the night as I found myself waking with another song in my head. It was the first one I ever listened to on my own repeatedly that had Jesus in it. I’d never heard a song that started out “If you’re ever inContinue reading “The Way Home”

The Leap of Faith

Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread. 1 Corinthians 11:23 After bitter herbs, I place upon the table my strange bread and wine, a really hard saying. Wise men are wary of this leap over a fisherman’s tally of the catch, a tax collector’s pinch of each extracted coin.Continue reading “The Leap of Faith”

A fourth visit to The Seven Storey Mountain

Early on in his memoir, when Thomas Merton was still an agnostic—at best—he was ill enough to consider death. He was still in his teens, a reluctant student in a parochial school. And here is how his thoughts unfolded: “If I have to die—what of it. What do I care? Let me die, then, andContinue reading “A fourth visit to The Seven Storey Mountain”

How big is your world?

This old and exceedingly wise commercial did not intend to make people think about God. But it does. It prompts us to ask if we’ve trained ourselves—-perhaps unwittingly—-to live lives tailored to our own jar-sized spaces. If we’ve allowed for God at all, have we only given access to one that might fit into ourContinue reading “How big is your world?”