Lent 2017: Week 6
Week 6: Stillness exercise
April 11, 2017
I am sitting under a tree in broadleaf daylight outside my brutal fraternity housing in Palo Alto, so it must be spring or summer, or, at any rate, sylvan, because...
Read moreWeek 6: Gospel reading [Matt. 20]
April 11, 2017
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard....
Read moreWeek 6: Prey
April 11, 2017
The Paschal perspective – which is to say, the Christian take on things – is not concerned about fiscal correctitude, the entrepreneurial prerogative of a paternalistic employer who feels digestively...
Read moreWeek 6: Pray
April 11, 2017
Go back to that moment in the garden. Go back to that moment when the water-sprinklers, those dirty little rubber-and-metal spigots you stub your flip-flop toe against in the scutch...
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