Thursday, October 23, 2025

An Imbalance in the Lectionary

I've been a volunteer youth minister for 15 years now. I lead a weekly meeting which is half Bible Study and half discussion group. I've tried different formats for Bible Study over the years. Sometimes we'll read about some topic the kids ask about. Other times we'll make our way through a book of the Bible one paragraph at a time. Lately I've just been following the lectionary. In doing that I've noticed something that kinda bothers me.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

An Ideal Correction

At some point in the future I'd like to do record some fulsome thoughts on Pope Francis' 12 years as Pope.  Overall, I could count the things I liked on one hand.  But today I want to look at one particular quirk of the document Amoris Laetitia... and the subtle correction that Pope Leo seemed to give to it.