On Sunday, Aug. 6, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which is a prime example of one of the two kinds of problems we 21st century Catholics face in grappling with Gospel stories. One problem is, we can’t stand it when stories sound wild and crazy and counter-rational. The Transfiguration story is like that: It seems like a fantastical story stripped from mythology rather than the kind of sober, rational demonstration of Jesus’s wisdom that we prefer.