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
Category: Spirituality
“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
What Doesn’t Fall Apart
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. It’s ironic that in “The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats, who considered himself more mystic than Christian (and no fan of Catholicism