Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The Gospels move along at a pretty fast clip, focusing on Jesus’s ministry with only the occasional reference to what the apostles might have been thinking or doing when they… Continue reading Filling in the Backstory
Month: September 2013
“How Can I Renounce Him?”
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The nineteenth century was a dangerous time to be a Catholic in Korea. It’s estimated that at least eight thousand of the faithful were killed
Bold Messages, Fearless Messenger
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. He wasn’t an intellectual, or a noteworthy theologian, for that matter. But some say Saint John Chrysostom, whose
The Night(mare) of the Iguana
Friday, 2 a.m. I bolted up in bed and looked to my open closet door, expecting to see several large lime-green iguanas crawling among my sheets, towels, and shoes. In my “dream,” I was in an animal park of some sort, strolling along a walkway. The iguanas were in trenches nearby. I’d been warned not… Continue reading The Night(mare) of the Iguana