The last two weeks have been idyllic. I’ve been at home, with hardly anything to do but lie out in the sunshine with a good book and a tall glass of iced coffee...
I have found Ecclesiastes a deeply comforting book. Yes, I am talking about the same book of the Bible—the one from which comes the familiar cry, “Vanity, vanit...
A dear friend of mine is getting baptized this Sunday, and as a rebirthday present I wrote her this piece. Please don't take it seriously. It is a reminder, if ...
Obedience is an uncomfortable subject. Our society isn’t set up in a way that makes obedience a particularly attractive virtue. We have to suppress a thrill of ...
I was delighted by the two poems in the most recent issue of the Ichthus. What I prized above all was the sense of good humor apparent in both “Zoo”, by Patrick...
Don’t give up on people.
That’s really all I want to say to you today. I don’t want to drag this post out too long; we all have too many things to do and too f...
Over the past few months I’ve been reading through the Psalms—just a few a night just before I go to bed. It had been a while since I’d last read them through, ...
Alleluia! Christ is risen! It’s Easter!
Wait, you think. It’s Thursday. Isn’t it a bit late for all of this Alleluia stuff? Easter was last Sunday. Let’s remem...
In my last post, I looked at how Dante uses the weaknesses and failures of Virgil as a character in the Divine Comedy to illustrate the impossibility of true st...
I went to a Phillips-Brooks House Association Leadership Intensive this past weekend. It wasn’t particularly fun, though I did somehow manage to learn a lot, es...
