Joshua Whitfield
September 11, 2022
The genius and grace of our faith is that we’re allowed to begin again; we’re invited to start over—over and over again. No matter what; no matter how bad it gets.
September 4, 2022
It’s a bit jaundiced but probably true, what Mark Twain said.
August 7, 2022
Let’s review what we’ve heard these past few weeks. Let’s review what Jesus said.
July 23, 2022
Kathleen Norris, the spiritual writer, said it was a “force we ignore at our peril.”[1] She was talking about the spiritual affliction, the wicked thought, the sin called acedia—sometimes called sloth. Which happens to the best of us, many of us (which was Norris’ point).
July 11, 2022
Subiaco, Italy, 2015 It was the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre who said, “We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.” We exist, rather unknowingly, he said, in a new dark age, and so he invoked a figure from the past, this saint whose beginning we’ve come to see.
July 10, 2022
I can’t say I feel all that fit to preach today, given how I failed this gospel just a few days ago.