For the men and women of Jesus’ time, death by crucifixion was not only painful; it was brutally de-humanizing, humiliating and shaming.
Bishop Robert Barron
Why ‘Last Days in the Desert’ is so boring+
To reduce Jesus to the human level alone is to render an altogether prosaic Jesus, which is precisely what we have in Last Days in the Desert.
Why you should read C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce”+
What I especially appreciate is Lewis’ spot-on representation of how the soul clings desperately to what is actually killing it.
Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, and Letting the Fly Out of the Fly Bottle+
If we move our attention away from the priesthood and toward sainthood, we let the fly out of the fly bottle.
