Just a Matter of Interpretation, Part III

When I attended Marygrove College in Detroit, I was like a sponge. Everything was new and unimaginably exciting to me. I was learning about my faith and my God, and I would spend hours lost in reading.
I was blessed to have amazing teachers, theologians and biblical experts themselves, who were intent on exposing us to the wide [...]

Just a Matter of Interpretation, Part II

I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, and this influences me in many ways. It especially influences me as a woman, for in my youth and young adulthood, being a woman was a definite impediment.
There were dozens of career choices that were not open to me. For instance, I could not aspire to be [...]

Remembering

I’ve never understood what Lot’s wife did that was so bad that she deserved death and the ignominy of being turned into a pillar of salt.
It goes hat in hand with any number of anomalies in various biblical stories that I cannot make sense of. I have yet to hear a coherent explanation of why [...]

Are You Prepared?

This is indeed a busy time of the year. For believers, it is more so I suspect as we attempt to meet our secular obligations of tree and gifts, parties and food, all the while being mindful of it’s religious significance.
Indeed, Advent is the new year of the Church, a time of preparation for the [...]

Once You Start Thinking. . . .

Whenever I get caught in some queue or other, and having nothing to read or otherwise occupy my time, I often turn to insoluble questions as a means to pass the time.
These questions or ideas if you will, have no answer, and aren’t meant to, but they give pause, and more than once,no doubt you [...]

Shaddup and Pass the Gravy

Thanksgiving is frankly a uniquely American holiday. Not to say that there are not other harvest celebrations in many parts of the world. There are. And no doubt they have their own unique qualities.
We are not talking better best, but different. Get it?
Thanksgiving to children is part of that delicious march toward the big day [...]

Why I Can’t Let It Go

Some ideas spring full blown into my mind, and I merely have to sit down and let it ooze from my fingertips as they tap over the keyboard.
Other times, the ideas are partial, intriguing but unfinished, worthy at inception of only a paragraph. Other events must transpire, and somehow they always do, adding to the [...]