Staying in the Groove

Three moments from fifteen minutes of today’s lunch hour:
The NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships are in town the next three days. Thus I had the pleasure of meeting a few of the gymnasts from the University of Utah at Subway. They are adorable. And probably more than capable of kicking my ass if I patronized them [...]

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Good Friday. The Seventh Words: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”

Luke alone gives us this Seventh Word from the cross. Mark says that “Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.” Similarly, Matthew reports, “And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.” According to John’s Gospel, “When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, ‘It is finished’, and he [...]

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6th Sunday of Lent: “It is finished.”

“It is finished” here should be taken in the sense of consummatum est—it is consummated, fulfilled, brought to perfection. This is much more than “It is over.” Of a terrible ordeal that has been endured we may say, “That’s over with.” In that case we mean that it is consigned to the past; now we [...]

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Moments

“My wish is to stare down a big league pitcher just as he is going into his windup, and give him a little wink, make him think you know something he doesn’t know. I wish for a chance to look at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes to look at it, to [...]

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