Homilies
September 24, 2021
There’s a story by the great Lebanese writer, Kahlil Gibran, called “John the Madman.”
October 2, 2021
It’s unlikely you’ve heard of John Beukels, the charismatic Anabaptist leader of the German city of Münster in the 1530s, from the early years of the Reformation.
October 10, 2021
A century ago, the big issue, for Catholics and Protestants alike, was the automobile. The Spanish Flu, of course, was a problem too, killing millions as it did. Yet it was the automobile that was a more enduring threat some thought, more of a game changer.
October 17, 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called it the “drum major instinct.”
November 20, 2021
Betrayed first, he was then arrested and arraigned before Annas and Caiaphas. Denied by his disciples, he stands, in our brief gospel text, before Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, pagan ruler of the Jews and the embodiment of Roman power, inhuman and violent. The weak before the strong, the provincial preacher, now the silent lamb: Jesus […]