This month marks the two year anniversary of the 2018 brutal crackdown against nationwide anti-government protests in Nicaragua.  Since 2018, thousands of people have fled Nicaragua, and now, along with other Central American countries, Nicaragua is facing the global coronavirus pandemic. …

What I want, my God, is that by a reversal of forces which you alone can bring about, my terror in face of the nameless changes destined to renew my being may be turned into an overflowing joy at being transformed into you.…

In the compelling 2016 fantasy drama film, A MONSTER CALLS, directed by J.A. Bayona, a child dealing with the impending loss of his terminally ill mother is visited by a monster who tells him a series of stories about truth in an effort to empower the child to face truth in the child’s own life. …

Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb

Proximity is so curious and so important.  Don’t we indeed know this these days?  Biological proximity in its most intimate form is the basis for regeneration of life – new life! …

The feeling of abandonment is real and terrible.  Some of us have had more experience of it than others. It is a harsh reality of life, whether it is circumstantial or imposed upon us by others.  It is a form of death. …