The humble act of limitation in the Incarnation means that not only can God speak to us through various times and places, but rather that time and place are now qualities native to the eternal and omnipresent God. To be a person means to be a person in a place.
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“Call it”
It’s nineteen fifty-eight. It’s been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it’s here. And I’m here. And I’ve got my hand over it. And it’s either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
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Unity in Difference: Language-Learning and God’s Kingdom
Learning another language helps me not only understand, but better experience first-hand how another person thinks, feels, and interacts with the world
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Easter Monday and the New Creation
Easter Monday is a day of reckoning for the Christian. “The Lord is risen!” “The Lord is risen, indeed!” … but what difference does it make?
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Notre-Dame, the New West, and Wanting to See from the Inside
Perhaps Paris (and with it much of the West) does now seem to be a kind of twilight world – a museum to a way of life that has all but vanished, inhabited by a people who cannot seem to entirely forget. But perhaps it is in that very refusal to forget, in the inability to turn away from beauty, in the instinct of the Parisians (believers or not) who gathered on the streets to sing Ave Maria, that we should look for hope.
