The Oak Tree
There’s a great temptation to think that the goal of any and all true renewal in the Church should be to return to the exact life and practice of the early Church. Even movements within the Catholic Church have…
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Trials and Tribulations
If God is good, why does He allow us to suffer trials and tribulations? This question ceased to be just an interesting intellectual puzzle for me after the tragic death of my son a few years ago. In the aftermath…
Book Review: Short Stories by Jesus, The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Short Stories by Jesus, The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, by Amy-Jill Levine, HarperCollins, New York, 2014, 313 pages. “Religion has been defined to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the…