“There is nothing we can do but love” said Dorothy Day. Brendan Busse couldn’t agree more, because it’s only in love – in embracing our fundamental amateurism – that we can do the same.
Posts in Spirituality
Given Up Yet? Then it’s Time for Renewal
What is the one thing standing between our dusty origin and our dusty destiny? The Love of God. Only this.
Finsternis, or Into the Depths
Who taught you to go deep? Who dared you to crack open the secret vaults of your heart? Who stood by as you crept hesitatingly into the silence?
An Open Letter to Parents: Thank You for Not Using the Cry Room
Channelling his love for kids, and the lovely Ms. Meg Hunter-Kilmer, Joe Simmons says thanks to parents.
Giving Up for Lent, or Teaching Poverty in America
Accepting the gift of our life reveals a powerful truth: the antidote to poverty is not wealth. It is generosity.
It’s… A Russian Development
Joe Simmons admits his undying love of Arrested Development and The Brothers Karamazov… and of Helen Rittelmeyer who first brought them together.
“Who Do You Say That I Am?”
Never intimidated by the impossible, Brendan Busse asks both the religious and secular some questions about how we talk with one another.
The God of Death, Too
The next day, Fr. Yan and I returned to the bamboo hut. Inside we found a muslin blanket covering a tiny body that had been moving, wheezing, living, just hours before. The weight of it settled on me…
What I Got For Christmas
“I’m deeply aware that in the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas we live between two questions: ‘What do you want?’ and ‘What did you get’? …”
No Room at the Inn for Grown Ups
“Amidst a national tragedy, and the pressures surrounding Christmas, an innocent child tugs at our jacket…”