Spirituality
22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: Just Do It
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. It’s one of the most basic and rudimentary rules for being a creative artist: You have to do it. I can’t be a writer based on all the great […]
Articles by Josh McDonald
Geekdom
A Review of Netflix’s Luke Cage, Season 2
Luke Cage is perhaps one of the more difficult characters to bring to the screen. From his first appearance in 1972 as a blaxploitation-style hero-for-hire to his modern comic-book persona as a more grounded family […]
Spirituality
21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Do You Also Want to Leave?
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do […]
Spirituality
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Call of the Canticle
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. It’s the time of year when the Gardening Geeks know abundance. We give vegetables to our friends, our local food pantry, we freeze some for later, and we still […]
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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Food For the Journey
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. Screenwriting coaches recommend breaking a story into “beats” — moments within the narrative arc which mark the rising and falling of dramatic tension. At the end of the second […]
Literature
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: We Are What We Eat
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. One of the more consistent rules of visiting a mystical, supernatural realm is, be careful what you eat. In Greek mythology, Persephone ate some food from the Underworld […]
Spirituality
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Reflecting Paradise
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. I’m probably showing my age here when I admit that I was almost thirty when the first Harry Potter book was published. In the midst of reading this delightfully […]
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16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. In the Ancient World, gods were a dime-a-dozen. Some people had their favorites but for the most part, folks were not very picky about which gods they worshipped on […]
Movies
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Peace is Our Profession
Click Here for This Week’s Readings. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” Fans of Peter Sellers and/or Stanley Kubrick will recognize the line from the classic Cold-War comedy Dr. […]
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14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Hero’s Journey
Click Here for This Week’s Readings You can thank, or maybe blame, Joseph Campbell and George Lucas for popularizing the concept, but it seems like every story these days has to be about the “Hero’s […]