Joshua Whitfield

March 16, 2020

Column: Fear, Hope, and the Coronavirus

It was inevitable, a question of when and not if.
February 28, 2020

Column: On Holiness after Jean Vanier

Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.
February 21, 2020

Column: What Your Church Organist Can Teach You

Think with me, please, on the organ and the organist. There’s something to learn.
January 17, 2020

Column: What is Violence Doing to Our Souls?

What if, saving our bodies, we destroy our souls?
December 20, 2019

Column: Hope is the Inverse of Cancel Culture

Can we imagine enemies as friends, or an addict who’s finally free? What about your husband, your wife, your own hard heart? Can you imagine these surprisingly new? What about us? Can we imagine ourselves beautifully better, different? Can we conceive it? Is it even sensible to try, to ask these questions of hope?
December 8, 2019

Column: Civil War or Reign of Terror?

Are we headed for civil war?
March 5, 2025

Ash Wednesday Homily: On Lent and Sister Lucy Dosh

I keep praying that what we do here matters.
March 2, 2025

Homily: On Integrity, or On Not Falling Into the Pit

February 9, 2025

Homily: The Speed of Christians

February 2, 2025

Homily: Natural Light and the Light of Christ

Our modern way of life, the pace of our contemporary world, has done much to obscure the ancient way of Christ.
January 12, 2025

Homily: The Sacramental Point

If you step back to consider the whole—that is, the whole liturgical year—you will begin to understand what the Church is teaching us Sunday by Sunday.
January 5, 2025

Homily: Solemnitas, Pietas, Caritas, Veritas

Preaching, centuries ago, on this feast of the Epiphany, St. Augustine ended his sermon with a rhetorical flourish.