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April 2, 2021
That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
December 9, 2018
Please forgive the topic this morning; it’s tragic and horrific. I want to talk about what happened on October 2, 2006, when Charles Roberts, tormented for years by the loss of his infant daughter, finally snapped. Randomly, it seems, he entered a small Amish schoolhouse near Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and opened fire; five young girls lost […]
November 23, 2019
“We receive fuller knowledge from the child.”
November 29, 2019
It’s not doubt that’s the problem, but distraction.
December 1, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. It was only at the end, in jail awaiting execution, that it became clear to him, the whiskey priest in Graham Greene’s famous novel, The Power and the Glory.
December 5, 2019
The Pharisees and Sadducees took too much pride in their heritage, in their education and status. It’s what blinded them to Christ.