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Creo en Dios
- A Hot Coal of Love February 9, 2025Today’s first Mass reading (Isaiah 6:5-8) is God’s call to Isaiah. When Isaiah claims his unworthiness, a seraph touches his mouth with a hot coal, assuring him that his guilt has departed and his sin blotted out. Retired Methodist Pastor Steve Garnaas-Holmes is a wonderful poet who sometimes uses scripture as a prompt for his […]
- To Dare to Follow Jesus February 8, 2025Soren Kierkegaard once wrote, “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.” Kierkegaard understood that Christianity is a way of life, not a […]
Recent Podcasts
- Walking With Jesus During Lent February 14, 2018Tonight was the opening session of the Lenten Ignatian Retreat at St. Thomas More. After this initial large group meeting, small retreat groups will meet weekly, and participants will pray each day with materials we provide to them that are based on Weeks 2 and 3 of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I gave […]
- Women of the Bible: Rachel and Leah September 19, 2016Today was the second session of the Fall Reflection Series that Jennifer Wright and I are offering at the University of St. Thomas (on the Minneapolis campus) this year. The theme for this five week series is Women of the Bible. In last week’s opening session, Jennifer spoke about Sarah and Hagar. (You can find her talk […]
- Women of the Bible: Sarah and Hagar September 15, 2016Monday was the first session of the Fall Reflection Series that Jennifer Wright and I are offering at the University of St. Thomas (on the Minneapolis campus) this year. Our theme for the five week series is Women of the Bible. Monday I briefly introduced the series and Jennifer spoke our our first subjects: Sarah […]