Jesus is walking along when he sees a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. That is how the story begins: with a man sitting. Matthew is not sitting in a neutral place. He is sitting at the tax booth, a place where money is taken, where empire reaches into ordinary households, where the […]

There are some conversations we are not meant to overhear: a whispered exchange in a hospital hallway, a late-night phone call, a prayer murmured at a bedside. And yet sometimes, by accident or by grace, we do overhear something. And what we hear changes us, because in hearing it we discover what someone truly carries […]