A New Center (Where the Gospel Requires Us to Be)
In Calcutta just weeks before his death, Thomas Merton famously described the monk, and thus himself, as a “very strange kind of …
“I Went to the Woods”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if …
“Are You Walkin’ with Us?”
November is Black Catholic History month. While teaching a new course on “The Black Catholic Experience” this semester, the one thing that’s …
Icon of Holy World Evangelist Thomas Merton
Celebrating a New Icon of Thomas Merton by William Hart McNichols Author’s Note: When Fr. Bill sent me this image of his …
Minding the Gap: In Thanksgiving for Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P.
In the Sunday Gospel today, Jesus tells the parable of a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus who lay hungry and …
What We Have Looked Upon and Touched with Our Hands
We are bombarded daily by so many images it’s easy to miss the diamond flashing in the rough. But this one stopped …
Elephantoms
A jackal sneered at an elephant for never having more than one calf. “Only one,” she agreed. “But an Elephant!” (Aesop) In …
“A Girl with a Book”: Happy Birthday Malala Yousafzai
Today is the 16th birthday of Malala Yousafzai. Another glimpse of the anawim, the still small voice of Sophia, breaking through in …
Whistle Blowers Blowin’ in the Wind
How many roads must a man walk down / Before you call him a man? Yes how many times must the cannon …
Race, The Masculine and The Feminine
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you e e cummings …
