On Christmas Eve, it’s not a carol that comes to my mind, but an aria, though not from Handel’s “Messiah”…
I’m not going to my grandmother’s house. We live 2,000 miles and two airplanes from our families of origin. There…
The “Scandal of the Particular” refers to the absurd notion of the Incarnation — the ineffable, infinite, transcendent God breaking…
There was a time in my life when believing in God was believing in a certainty. As a boy growing…
The Christmas seasons of my childhood in Ireland were layered with magic and meaning. Families went “visiting” house to house,…
Some things just strike us. We feel it. Immediately. Like that amazing meal. Or the first time you did that…
Successful wassailing demands an uncomfortable degree of movement. I’m not talking about the swaying of hips or the smacking of…
The title of this song — “Easier Said Than Done” — brings to mind conflicting feelings. On the one hand,…
“Uni trinoque”— “the one in three” — stands as the central mystery around which every Christian feast day dances. In…
I love Christmas music. Once Thanksgiving is over, my house is constantly filled with the sounds of Bing Crosby, the…
This one’s for the millennials. I was 9 when my aunt herded me and my cousins up the New York…