Selected by Michael Fitzpatrick John Milton (1608–1674) Faith and Love When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load Of death, called life, which us from life doth sever. …

Selected by Michael Fitzpatrick Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Thou art incomprehensible Father in Heaven! Thou art incomprehensible in Thy creation; Thou livest afar off in a light which no one can penetrate and if we recognize Thee in Thy providence, our knowledge is feeble and veils Thy splendor, Thou who are incomprehensible in Thy…

Selected by Michael Fitzpatrick Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Thou has loved us first Father in Heaven! Thou has loved us first, help us never to forget that Thou art love so that this sure conviction might triumph in our hearts over the seduction of the world, over the inquietude of the soul, over the anxiety…

By Dan Clendenin From Our Archives For earlier essays on this week’s RCL texts, see Dan Clendenin, Walking the Way of St. Francis (2016); and Debie Thomas, Truth in Advertising (2019). The gospel this week begins a long section right in the middle of Luke that’s typically called his “travel…

By Dan Clendenin From Our Archives For earlier essays on this week’s RCL texts, see Dan Clendenin, “Where is Your God?” (2010); “My Name is Legion” (2013); Those Troublesome Christians (2016) ; and Debie Thomas, Legion (2019) This week I caught a second case of COVID. In my first case…

By Michael Fitzpatrick For earlier essays on this week’s RCL texts, see the two essays by Debie Thomas, The Trinity: So What and Deeper than Darkness; and two essays by Dan Clendenin, Lo Cotidiano: “The Daily Thing” and “I have much more to say to you”: Lessons from a Love…

Selected by Dan Clendenin Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Veni, Creator Come, Holy Spirit, bending or not bending the grasses, appearing or not above our heads in a tongue of flame, at hay harvest or when they plough in the orchards or when snow covers crippled firs in the Sierra Nevada. I…

By Ricardo Avila From Our Archives For earlier essays on this week’s RCL texts, see Dan Clendenin, Beyond Babel (2007); Kathryn Greene-McCreight (PhD, Yale), Pentecost: What It Is, What It’s Not (2010); Edwina Gateley, Back from the Dead (2013); Debie Thomas, Words on Fire (2016); and Debie Thomas, The One…

By Dan Clendenin From Our Archives For earlier essays on this week’s RCL texts, see Debie Thomas, On Behalf of Everyone (2019) and then the essays by Dan Clendenin, To Convert, Begin Now (2016); “I Am Giving Thee Worship with My Whole Life,” (2013); The Last and Best Word (2010)…