In the traditional Lenten season, we often look toward physical deprivations—sweets, caffeine, or social media—as a means of sharpening the soul. Yet, there is a more subtle clutter that fills our minds and spirits: the “prejudicial adjective.” If one were to operate as a newspaper or a magazine, the most transformative Lenten sacrifice might not…
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The Defenseless Child — For of Such is the Kingdom
Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. — Matthew 19:14. There is a heart-wrenching weight in these words when held against the reality of our modern world. To “suffer” the children, in the archaic sense, means to allow them, to make room for…
Small Steps Toward Justice
I often hope that today will be the day I finally “take that long walk” or “end the war.” We have a tendency to speak to ourselves in these grand, sweeping terms, but when our dreams are untethered from reality, they often wither before the sun sets. Perhaps the path to justice doesn’t begin with…
The Whispers of Compassion
In the film Field of Dreams, the whisper “Ease his pain” is initially a mystery. Ray Kinsella assumes it refers to the unfulfilled dreams of a legendary ballplayer. However, he eventually realizes it refers to his own father—a man he had grown distant from, a man who had died without reconciliation. The “pain” wasn’t physical;…
Young For Longer
Philip Geluck once observed that “being old is just being young for longer than others.” It is a charmingly subversive thought, one that flips the script on the standard narrative of decline. Instead of seeing age as the accumulation of years, Geluck invites us to see it as the successful persistence of youth. My wife,…