For several years, I volunteered as an English teacher for a group of women who had immigrated from Mexico. Because of limited space at the front of our classroom, no one sat at the head of the table. I perched at an awkward angle at one corner of the table with the students sitting around […]MORE

The crowd in today’s Gospel has set out on a journey, coming from all corners of the land in a common quest. They have come from nearby neighborhoods, from Jerusalem, from Tyre and Sidon, from the region beyond the Jordan. They have heard that a man has been freed from a demon. Another has been […]MORE

True confession—I didn’t want to study Augustine when I began graduate studies. An Augustineseminar, however, was required in my very first semester! There, I was captivated by the great value hispreaching places on the lived Christian experience. Like the psalmist, he understands that those whowalk in God’s ways are truly blessed (cf. Ps 128:1). Augustine […]MORE