No Laughing Matter
Is anything “sacred”? Is anything “not to be laughed at”? Is anything no laughing matter? Because we live in a pluralist world …
Bearing Christ into the New Year
“Each of us,” says St. John of the Cross, is called to be “the midwife of God” in the world. Each of …
With Love There Are No Boundaries
To everyone in the Hope Sings community, Happy Christmas from Rosemary (second childhood!) at the soup kitchen where about 150 people probably …
Mourning: Hope in Resistance in Advent
Is there possibly too much singing and not enough crying out in our Christian spirituality? – Johann Baptist Metz [1] — It …
Images That Return Our Love
Readers of Hope Sings, So Beautiful and regular visitors to this website may recognize in this image the distinct iconography of William …
On Forming a New Kind of Humanity: Adolfo Nicolás, SJ
Religion is less a code of doctrines and moral teachings than it is a sensitivity to the “dimensions of transcendence that underlie …
Dreaming of Jesus
One of my most enduring wishes is to dream about Jesus. Indeed I have often wondered why, on the eve of fifty …
Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Epiphany
Every year I am caught by surprise when I see the morning star around this time of the year and remember we …
The Christ Child is Born, Another Black Child is Dead
Yes, my title is provocative, but not gratuitously so. If you call yourself a Christian, it seems to me, you cannot ignore …
Theotokos: The Christ Taking Birth Forever
Like Mary, says St. John of the Cross, “each of us is the midwife of God, each of us.” What would it …
