We Are All Exiles Now
A holy and learned confessor once advised a penitent to enter each day into a prayerful reading of the Old Testament. “It’s good,” he would say, “to have Iron Age words in your mouth every day.” Especially these days, he might have added, when so few either read or pray at all. We live in the Age of the Afterword. So, heeding his advice, I’ve been looking into Ezekiel who…