Impossible

Defying the impossible

Throughout this week, we’ve explored how impossible scenarios are all around us. We’ve wondered at how the impossible breaks in at Advent, how the light of Christ’s birth calls us to actually embrace the impossible as a good thing. And we’ve considered how the impossible can actually lead…

The Politics of Impossible

If you’re looking for impossible scenarios in the world today, it’s pretty easy to find a glaring example in the U.S. political climate. Someone that many of us didn’t expect to win is now making plans for a new administration. These plans continue to provoke shock and surprise for…

Wisdom and the Impossible

The way of wisdom is akin to the way of the impossible.

Wisdom is not about quick answers to complex questions. Wisdom takes a longer way around, hoping to find a more excellent way.

A world of impossibles

If we take an honest look at the world we live in today, it can seem like a pretty impossible place. Impossible in how many hurdles it feels like people have to overcome to simply get by. Impossible in how we reckon with hatred and violence breaking out all around us, in our cities, on…

The impossible with us

Welcome friends to the first post in the new series of Advent reflections on impossibility, light, darkness, and hope. It is a joy to share this journey with you.

This first week, I’ll be exploring the theme of impossible.

Why “impossible light”?

Welcome to Impossible Light, a series of daily reflections on faith, the cosmos, and our belonging to one another, written for the season of Advent.

You might be wondering…where does the name come from?