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I am a very critical homily reviewer. My family has come to know my telltale signs of dissatisfaction, and they know to expect a full debrief of my feedback when we exit to the car after the dismissal. I’m not proud of this trait; in fact, I’m working actively to be more sympathetic to the priest delivering the homily. I know it cannot be easy to prepare a fresh interpretation or offer fresh perspective week after week to roughly the same audience who is looking for solace, g

Some scripture scholars question the literal reading of this passage. They specifically look at the five husband line and suggest that it could be referencing to a practice of the region worshiping local deities. Unsurprisingly, this woman was more easily cast as a woman with a sordid past over the centuries. Her story served the purpose of upholding the comfortable understandings of hierarchies of male and female, different branches of religious understanding, which sins are

We are an Easter people. Words proclaimed throughout the Church on Sunday, but that became all the more poignant on this Easter Monday as...

It is the darkness before the first rays of the morning sunrise peeking over the hills. The whole world is still - and yet, my whole...

Here we are, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, surrounded by the chaos of this particular post-election season. Perhaps you find yourself...

Today’s reading from Isaiah paints a remarkable, beautiful composite of images: Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of...

Even though today is the fourth Sunday of Lent, to most of the world it is just another day. Another Sunday to get laundry done, make...

In November of 2022, I found myself silently weeping in the lobby of the University of Chicago Hospital, having just concluded my 38th...

Today’s Gospel reading states that “A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might...

Today's Readings Today’s readings remind me of the popular improv game called “Yes, and.” I played the “Yes, and” game semi-regularly in...

Today's Readings Here we are just a few days after Easter, Christ’s Resurrection from the dead, and we observe the Sunday of Divine Mercy....

Today's Readings Reflecting on today's reading from the Book of Daniel, Jessica reminds us to consider our own abilities to bring hope...

No other world religion makes such a bold claim about the afterlife: …I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the...

Today's Readings For a short Gospel reading, we have quite a few metaphors explaining who we are meant to be as disciples of Christ....

Today's Readings “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone....

Today's Readings For the first Wednesday in Advent, Jessica reflects on the hope found in this reading for the first century Christians...

Today's Readings It took me a few rounds with the readings today. They just weren’t landing on my heart the way I hope Scripture always...

Today's Readings I was interested in writing this piece because of this Sunday’s date, September 11, 2022. Twenty-one years after the...

Today's Readings Today we celebrate Pentecost, when the breath of the Spirit flowed through Jesus’ friends and empowered them to bring...

Today's Readings As I sit here writing this devotion for the 7th Sunday of Easter, my heart is again troubled as our world suffers at the...