Do not speak to me of the beauty of crèche scenes. They are too still. They are too peaceful. And they are all too often tainted by order: by a most pernicious...
These past two months I have been enlivened by the company of a dead man.
His name is Henri J.M. Nouwen. He was a Dutch Catholic priest and a theologian, wh...
You asked me how I’m doing.
To be honest, I am not sure how to answer that. There is so much I could write. Where should I begin? 2020 has been a veritable ...
I signed up to write this Easter reflection almost two months ago in late February, back when the season of Lent was only just beginning. It was a different ti...
The incipient Coronavirus crisis has posed an unprecedented challenge to the global Church. In a time of necessary quarantining and social distancing, worship ...
Human beings are dichotomizing creatures. We crave duality. For us, no discussion of light is complete without a discussion of darkness. No discussion of life ...
, “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do...
Today's Lectionary Readings
Hope is not optimism—not, at least, in the sense of calling a half-empty glass half-full. Indeed, if life is a glass, I think we...
I should like to build a world and compose a story for it—call it a work of “high fantasy”—and I want that story to echo and honor the story of the Incarnation...
