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What is it about homilies on the Woman at the Well that annoys me so much? The worst I ever heard was by a priest with horn-rimmed glasses, a creepy demeanor and an utter inability to relate to people, who said that Jesus "grew" in his encounter with the Woman at the Well. He "grew" in [...]
Hear, O Africa, cradle of humanity’s first dreaming, the cry of your oppressed children rises high above the ocean’s crest. Hear the whip crack, splitting the skin baked brown in your fire-stoked sun. Hear the clank of the shackles, the first time they close around free flesh and bone. Does not all humanity now find itself [...]
Comments on StAR, 7.2 March-April 2017 Wounded Beauty：Suffering and the Arts By Peter Milward SJ To Joe Pearce, Once again I don't know how you manage it, but you always find something new and surprising for each issue of StAR. Yes, there is indeed beauty in the Crucifixion – as St Paul says, "We [...]
To explain why we can't communicate requires some skill in communication. I'm going to try to paraphrase an essay by Eric Voegelin. But every time I enthusiastically share Eric Voegelin quotes with a friend, I lose that friend. There seems to be something intimidating in the way Voegelin writes that makes people's eyes gloss over. So [...]
Lent is the Christian season of penitence, traditionally practiced through the triple disciplines of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. It marks the period when Christ spent 40 days in the desert to prepare for his earthly ministry. Also, it is common for those partaking in the season to give up something in particular. However, it should also [...]
We live in a world in which people think that enthusiasm fixes everything. When I was a young man, I was enthusiastic, at least about one thing: women. I wanted a Love Affair that Mattered. And so I had an intense affair with a young woman who was as enthusiastic as I was and who I [...]
I've been dealing with a challenging situation for the last two weeks, so I have not been posting. Now we appear to be past that, but I've got a major creative project that I hope to finish by Ash Wednesday, so I'm going to keep this post brief - then I plan on bugging my readers [...]
This is from a post on my old blog ... Since I'm currently a judge in a one-act Catholic play writing contest, I don't want to say too much about the plays I'm reading. But I have seen enough to know how to write a really bad play. And I'm passing that advice on to you, dear [...]