Apr 18, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Humility is the source of all the energy in the cosmos. When Jesus wraps a towel around his waist and washes the feet of his disciples he gives us a portrait of the unseen Father, who holds all things together—visible and invisible—as an unassuming, humble servant....
Apr 15, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Some commenting on today’s catastrophe [the Notre Dame inferno] seem not to understand the hallowing of the material realm that is the purchase of the cross. Yes…the church is not buildings but it’s also not immaterial. Where creation—stone, glass, wood, fabric,...
Apr 11, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
“Know to what extent the Creator has honored you above all the rest of Creation: the sky is not an image of God, nor is the moon, nor the sun, nor the beauty of the stars, nor anything of what can be seen in Creation. You alone have been made the image of the Reality...
Apr 8, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The universe is vast, mysterious, dark, and lovely (the images of the universe we are the first privileged humans to see blow my mind and provoke deep emotion in me). The cosmos makes us ask questions of time and existence and meaning, some of which we cannot answer....
Mar 27, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Moses and the bush that burns without being consumed is one of the great moments in Sacred Scripture, a moment suffused with the gospel, and the start of the Exodus, an event that for the first Christians interprets the entire human story as a deliverance from death...
Mar 3, 2019 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
You either believe that the end is the arrival of power, or you believe that the end is the arrival of nothing, or you believe that the end is the arrival of love. A lot of people believe we are waiting for the arrival of nothing. At the end of their physical life the...