A man talking about what it means for a woman to give birth? This seems like a topic about which women need to speak. After all, biological males can’t get pregnant and carry a fetus to term and give birth. At the same time, there are some things I’ve observed… Read More »Giving Birth to God
How can things go so badly? I suspect most people have asked a question like that during 2020. There are the pandemic and the cascade of problems that have come with it like economic hardship, unemployment, disruption of education from pre-K through university life, businesses closing offices with people now… Read More »The Christmas Story and 2020
Earlier and earlier each year, Christmas decorations appear in stores. Halloween is not even past before the first Christmas items go on sale. Surprisingly, even with the commercialization of the Christmas holiday, the first sign of the coming Christmas season appears in early spring. Nine months before Christmas, the Christian… Read More »Mary’s Going to have a Baby!
In my youth, I attended Catholic schools. In that setting, I was taught a great deal about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The Mary I learned about was pure, humble, obedient, silent and long-suffering. As an adult, I came to understand that the Mary presented to me in my youth… Read More »Giving Birth to God
We sat in a circle around a small table on which a single purple candle burned. After slowing reading together on of the psalms from the Hebrew Bible, one of the women read a passage from the Gospel of John. It was a familiar story. Jesus was in Bethany at… Read More »Fragment Ointment: Applying Care at the Right Time
I received email recently from one of my high school classmates. While we haven’t seen each other since high school, we reconnected last year through Facebook. She’s been in a 12-step program for many years and commented about the importance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as her higher power.… Read More »Mary: A Higher Power