Reflections on the Sorrowful Mysteries by Gregory Peebles, CMJ Companion The First Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden The first sorrowful mystery is not about sweat like blood. It is about having an inkling of something very bad coming, and still trusting in God. In the garden, Jesus tells the truth. He speaks his desire to avoid suffering. This — along with the cry from the cross (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me”) — is the moment where we might encounter a Jesus we can...

Healing is in the integration of all of us, not in the making this one or that one like the rest.

By Gregory Peebles (CMJ Companion) The irony that undergirds Christianity’s paradoxical tenets – namely, that we die so that we may live;...