Homilies

November 14, 2021

Homily: Choices Will Have To Be Made

October 17, 2021

Homily: Sacrifice Status

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called it the “drum major instinct.”
October 10, 2021

Homily: The Car and the Parish

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 2, 2021

Homily: The Only Sort of Love God Is

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.
September 24, 2021

Homily: What We Do With Truth

There’s a story by the great Lebanese writer, Kahlil Gibran, called “John the Madman.”
September 18, 2021

Homily: That Wilder Christianity We Want

My first instinct is to blame lawyers, but I know it’s not all their fault.