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A Palm Sunday Reflection with Saint Oscar Romero

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down as he celebrated Mass. A week later, on Palm Sunday,…
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I Owe My Life to VBS Essay

I Owe My Life to VBS

Have you ever looked back on your life and connected the dots, only to discover one particular moment that set you on your current path? I'm talking about a moment that if it had gone a different way would have meant an entirely different life. I was thinking…
Jason Lief
July 31, 2015
Ad-Vocate Essay

Ad-Vocate

"Contrary to what people often think, the key to easing people's suffering is not in offering some insidious theodicy, but in allowing a place for people to mourn, and to meet others who know what it is to have been burned by that same black…
Jason Lief
June 19, 2015
The Beauty of Baseball Essay

The Beauty of Baseball

In my former life as a high school teacher I was a coach. For 10 years I coached baseball at every level—freshman, junior varsity, and finally varsity. I wasn't the greatest coach in the world, but I wasn't the worst either. We won some big…
Jason Lief
June 5, 2015
David Letterman and Carnival Essay

David Letterman and Carnival

A friend, who happens to be an excellent preacher, has said on numerous occasions that there's an important connection between comedians and preachers. There's timing—the right word at the right time evoking a specific response. There's the use of language, words that mean something specific,…
Jason Lief
May 22, 2015