Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston (It is Christmas…the Advent Season is over, yet I think it begins the second “week” of the New Advent. I wrote this story 29 years ago. It had an unexpected effect that has been very useful to me over the years. People of deep and ardent faith seem to always love the […]
Read More The Beginning of RedemptionBy Charlie Johnston (I think a lot, these days, of looking back to the manger with the hopeful anticipation that Israel looked forward to the manger. We are almost there for this great celebration this year. What a joy it is! I can’t help but think of it as prelude to 2026, the Year of […]
Read More Almost ThereBy Charlie Johnston Willowbrook, Houston, Texas – Two millennia ago, on this day, the crowd in Jerusalem called for the release of Barabbas, a murderous bandit, rather than Jesus. Pontius Pilate, the governor, was stunned that the crowd’s hatred and malice could be so great that they would choose to free someone who routinely murdered […]
Read More Choose or Perish(I repeat today what has become an Easter Tradition for me – my little story about Pontius Pilate and the Lord. Some, over the years, have commented on how real the death scene feels. I took it almost verbatim from an actual event I participated in. What follows is fiction. I used the literary device […]
Read More Ecce HomoBy Charlie Johnston This Christmas has a distinctive “Last Supper” vibe to it. Almost everyone I know believes we are at the very edge of starkly world-changing events in every aspect of society and culture. It is both striking and unsettling. I also believe it is right. We are like animals in the forest before […]
Read More The Christmas of Our Discontent(I repeat today what has become an Easter Tradition for me – my little story about Pontius Pilate and the Lord. Some, over the years, have commented on how real the death scene feels. I took it almost verbatim from an actual event I participated in. What follows is fiction. I used the literary device […]
Read More Epitaph(At Mass tonight, children performed the Christmas Story from the Gospel of Luke, Unexpectedly, it seriously choked me up. When I was a kid, Mom and Dad would wake us up around midnight, then we would sit on the floor around the tree and Dad would read the Christmas story from Luke. Then Mom would […]
Read More Joseph’s Way (2022)(On this Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception, I repeat this story I wrote on my pilgrimage. Reading it again, I cried. It takes a few years before you can read a story you wrote from the perspective of actual reader rather than some weird sort of technician. My friends, God has a plan – […]
Read More The Pivot of CivilizationEcce Homo – Antonio Ciseri (I repeat today what has become an Easter Tradition for me – my little story about Pontius Pilate and the Lord. Some, over the years, have commented on how real the death scene feels. I took it almost verbatim from an actual event I participated in. What follows is […]
Read More EpitaphPosted on November 2, 2015 by charliej373 (I wrote this little story way back in 1996. I love to post it at Christmas. I hope you enjoy it. – CJ) By Charlie Johnston The true son of true God was adopted by a man, that all men might truly be adopted by God. Taking […]
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A Sign of Hope 