Who do you claim to be? I think we are right to hear a certain reserve, even discomfort, in the way Christ answers this question. It is as if such interrogation - who do you claim to be? - invites Him to make a kind of declaration about Himself that He...
Christ's temptations in the desert are very familiar to us. They are perhaps a little too familiar; maybe we need to reawaken our sense of the strangeness, and also the depth, of what is being shown us. For it is truly extraordinary, and at the same time highly significant, that the...
I have a confession to make to gentle reader. When I describe myself as “a man of the thirteenth century,” it is an “alternative fact.” In other words, it is not true. According to my passport, and birth certificate, I was actually born around the middle of the twentieth century....
It is true I am a pirumphile, or lover of pears, as I am reminded by a plastic jug of excellent pear juice I have obtained from a farmer’s market. It is large, a half-gallon, but I cannot guarantee it will last very long, up here in the High Doganate....
