Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 18

Dangerous Angels: Bruce Cockburn’s Prophetic Pilgrimage

If you wrestle with angels, you'll always end up with a limp.

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Holy Week and the March for our Lives

For these kids it is already Holy Saturday.

The crucifixion has already happened

and their friends are in the ground.

But they did not run away.

They marched on Washington.

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Holy Week and the March of our Lives

For these kids it is already Holy Saturday.

The crucifixion has already happened

and their friends are in the ground.

But they did not run away.

They marched on Washington.

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Character and the Crisis of Home

Character and the crisis of home.

Or perhaps we could say,

spiritual bankruptcy and the deformation of character.

Or maybe,

moral ecology and the collapse of home.

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Angel’s Envy, Psalm 41 and Adam Wood

Angel's Envy.

Who knows, maybe the angels envy

my friend Adam Wood.

Not even the angels meet that kind of integrity everyday.

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Resurrecting Religion: A Review

Like James before him,

Greg Paul wants to resurrect religion,

give it a new body,

allow it to be what it is called to be,

coming to life again,

with all of its scars open to view.

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Epiphany, Fire and Fury

Didn't Herod the Great say

that he would "Make Judea Great Again?"

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Advent on the way to the Cross

The times are too desperate

for “Away in the Manger.”

The situation is too dangerous

for “Silent Night.”

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The Word Does Not Return Empty

Before the book,

even before language,

there was the Word.

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At the Crux of the Matter: A liturgy of saying goodbye

A liturgy of thanksgiving for Crux Books

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