Sacred Meditations
The Image on the Coin, the Currency of the Heart
Pull a coin from your pocket. Look at it closely. Whose face stares back at you? In our day, the answer is mundane—a long-dead president, a former monarch, perhaps a...
The Image on the Coin, the Currency of the Heart
Pull a coin from your pocket. Look at it closely. Whose face stares back at you? In our day, the answer is mundane—a long-dead president, a former monarch, perhaps a...
The Cathedral and the Strip Mall
When Mary of Bethany broke her alabaster jar of costly nard to anoint Jesus, Judas protested the waste, calculating how much more efficient it would have been to sell it...
The Cathedral and the Strip Mall
When Mary of Bethany broke her alabaster jar of costly nard to anoint Jesus, Judas protested the waste, calculating how much more efficient it would have been to sell it...
Did John the Baptist Doubt?
There is a particular kind of teacher every one of us has had at some point in our lives—the kind who, when you finally master the lesson, seems to disappear...
Did John the Baptist Doubt?
There is a particular kind of teacher every one of us has had at some point in our lives—the kind who, when you finally master the lesson, seems to disappear...
The Strange Prophetess Anna, Mary, and the Baby...
Have you ever noticed how, at weddings and funerals alike, there always seems to be one elderly woman sitting quietly near the back, watching everything with eyes that have seen...
The Strange Prophetess Anna, Mary, and the Baby...
Have you ever noticed how, at weddings and funerals alike, there always seems to be one elderly woman sitting quietly near the back, watching everything with eyes that have seen...
The Algorithm Knows What You Want Before You Do
Have you noticed how the advertisements that follow you across the internet seem to know things about you that you have not even admitted to yourself? You glance at a...
The Algorithm Knows What You Want Before You Do
Have you noticed how the advertisements that follow you across the internet seem to know things about you that you have not even admitted to yourself? You glance at a...
Sheep Among Wolves: The Strange Strategy of the...
Have you ever seen something like this on the Discovery Channel? Or, in some other nature documentary? The camera lingers on a flock of sheep grazing peacefully in a meadow,...
Sheep Among Wolves: The Strange Strategy of the...
Have you ever seen something like this on the Discovery Channel? Or, in some other nature documentary? The camera lingers on a flock of sheep grazing peacefully in a meadow,...