redemption

Yes, we have a savior who shared in our pain, sin, and death - our agony. But he also had authority to overcome it. And by his stripes we are healed.

“A good narrative—a Black one, at least—is not owned by any individual; it is, instead, the story of a people.”

Ask baseball fans to name their favorite baseball movie, and it is highly likely that Field of Dreams will be on the short list....

By George Sumner This reflection is really meant as advice for the Episcopal Church. It may make it more likely that I can be heard...

By Thomas Kincaid “And men, when you get in there, remember to look for the scarlet thread.” The promised fall of Jericho had been a long...

At a dark, difficult, dangerous time in our common life, one could do much worse than forgiveness, sacrifice, and redemption as things to be reminded of, and to believe in.

Two days after Easter, my wife and I found out that our expected child was dead. She should have been twelve weeks along in...

By Timothy P. O’Malley On the eighth day after his birth, before receiving the “name above all names” (Phil. 2:9), Jesus was circumcised. The temptation is...

The world of The Irishman is a deeply moral one, with a strong sense of retribution and justice, but without much hope of reconciliation or redemption for its central characters.

We prefer to think that evil is something “bad people” do, and that these bad people are easily recognizable. We see a mug shot on the news and say “Oh, he looks like a child molester, like a mass shooter, like a serial killer, like a bad person. Or as often as not today we think of evil as that perpetrated only by our political opposites. We describe such people as “inhuman” or “deplorable”, descriptors that gives us the relief of distance. The guise evil wears is, of course, always that of someone else.