Brad Bursa

  • Breaking the Silence

    Today we commemorate the breaking of the Word’s silence. The Word had freely confined itself to the mysterious quiet of the womb, foreshadowing the willful silencing of the same Word in the tomb. Today is Christmas, when the Word broke its silence not with a word of wisdom or an eloquent soliloquy, but with the…

    Brad Bursa

  • No Worldly Ambition

    He more or less asked me what I was doing working for four parishes in the middle of nowhere. And, I get it. I have a PhD. I’ve worked for the Archdiocese. I’ve taught at and run theology programs at a university. I suppose I was on a certain trajectory in his mind, probably involving…

    Brad Bursa

  • The World Upside Down

    The man who went into the cave was not the man who came out again; in that sense he was almost as different as if he were dead…He looked at the world as differently from other men as if he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands. — GK Chesterton With…

    Brad Bursa

  • Tattoo the Soul

    I’m one of those rare millennials without a tattoo. Okay, maybe not. A quick Google search tells me that 41-47% of my generation is tatted. I’m in the majority. Still, tattoos ride on the bodies of something like 32% of Gen X and only 13% of Baby Boomers. So, there’s a huge uptick in ink…

    Brad Bursa