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For Love Does Nothing Unseemly: Chrysostom and the Purity of Christ’s Love (Lectio Divina)
What if the love that let itself be spit on, mocked, and nailed to a cross never once felt ashamed? St. John Chrysostom insists that Christ’s suffering held no disgrace in it at all — only glory. This reflection sits with a love so free of self that shame simply had nowhere left to…
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Hate the Sickness, Not the Sick: Amma Syncletica of the Desert on Forgiveness and the Cross (Lectio Divina)
We tell ourselves the ones who hurt us knew exactly what they were doing — because believing that lets us believe we’re different, that we’d never do the same. But what if the harm done to us isn’t the whole story? A desert mother’s ancient counsel and Christ’s words from the cross meet in…
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Where Does A Tree Start And End: God’s Eternal Love As The Ground Of Existence (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Heidi Russell’s Rahnerian Christology, this Lectio Divina traces the cosmic arc of God’s self-communication — from the eternal intention to take on flesh, through the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, to the crucifixion we repeat whenever we fail to see the sacred ground of our shared existence. Beginning with a meditation on…