Jesus wept at the gravesite of Lazarus, the Gospel of John reports. Theologians debate the meaning of those tears. Some take it as source of sorrow over the tyranny of death, a master over us all.

Jesus has taught about the Eucharist in the Sunday Gospels of roughly the last month. From his “sign” of multiplying the loaves and fishes through his Eucharistic Discourse taken from John 6, Jesus ...

Jesus’ tears counter the narrative that “men don’t cry.” Conversations in the public square of late have ranged from biblical masculinity to gender roles in the church. We need these debates, and I am ...