Silence in Boston

If you are ever absurd enough to wake up early on a weekend and wander around…

Mary the Undoer of Knots, Even the Small Ones

Growing up, there has always been, sitting on the top of my fireplace back home, a…

COOKIE CUTTER 

Have you ever had the sensation that everything in your life is too neat or too…

Not Your Average Joseph

Of late, I have been moseying my way through the first of the synoptic gospels. In…

Θαρσεῖτε, Ἐγώ Eἰμι

The summer that has just now passed was, for me, divided fairly distinctly into two sections.…

Coffee-Flavored Devotion

In the early parts of the semester, Boston College Campus Ministry takes center stage in a…

Two Ears and One Mouth for a Reason

A favorite saying of mine is “You have two ears and one mouth for a reason.”…

The Spindle of Prayer

For those of us who live in the secular world, daily life is overwhelmingly heterogeneous. This…

The Theology of Sports in Both Virtue and Vice

On a crisp Saturday morning in Chestnut Hill, Mother Nature chose to have mercy on the…

An Autumn Walk

As we move from September into October, the change of the seasons has come far quicker…