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Today, I write to you with a simple invitation—that the Church is called to address mental health and mental illness. To support us in this discernment, I will seek to answer the question, "Why does the Church have this call?" and will propose ways in which the Church might respond to this call, with a particular emphasis on your roles as ministers and educators.
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Early Christians regarded Jonah’s emergence from the sea monster as a foreshadowing of Jesus’s suffering, death, and resurrection. During his ministry, Jesus compared his impending death to “the sign of the prophet Jonah”: as Jonah was swallowed by the sea monster “for three days and three nights,” so too “for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of...
If the Enuma Elish and Hesiod’s Theogony reveal ancient attempts to grasp the origins of the cosmos through stories of conflict, violence, and the volatile personalities of the gods, Genesis 1-11 stands as a deliberate and stunning counter-narrative. It is not simply a rival myth; it is an intentional reframing of the deepest questions about divinity, the wo...
Where does a poem come from? The immediate genesis for the following poem, which forms the introduction to my latest book of poems, Sing Me a Song, She Said, literally came from a dream, in which I remember hearing a sublime music like nothing I had heard b...
Consider the following series of questions. Why is it that you are a follower of Christ (regardless of your degree of lived fidelity to Christ’s truth and way)? Chances are that you can recall particular moments in which you made some decisive choices to follow Christ. These choices may resemble the vivid turnabout of a Damascus Road encounter. Or they may be quieter transfor...