Catholic Passioneering
Near my desk there’s a map of the Sea of Galilee. Luke called the sea Limnen Genneseret, the Garden of Riches, the waters on which Jesus walked like a ghost, the waters Jesus calmed in the storm. It was along these shores that Jesus summoned Simon the fisherman to be Peter, his foremost Apostle — not in ...
The sheer glory of baptism. It’s as beautiful as a wedding or a newborn baby, and heavy with just as much promise. But what is baptism? Why must we be baptized? And why do Catholics baptize babies? Over the years I have found that those who do not believe in infant baptism often do not ...
It was anything but a holy moment. Last spring, a bug flew in my ear. I do not mean that a bug landed on my ear and flew away. A bug flew into my ear and got stuckinside my head. Can I just say that I started dancing? I didn’t want to push it deeper in, so I just sort of ...
Why did God make Eve? Why not just stop with Adam? God made Eve for the same reason God makes anything—as a celebration of his own glory. [Note: this essay was first published by Crisis Magazine and is reprinted with permission.] God was up to something of eternal importance in making his special image-bearers male and female. When God made Eve he ...
Hi, my name is Tyler! I'm a husband, father, and Catholic passioneer.
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