Christ the King
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.
November 21, 2019
The thing is that in the middle of our chaos and violence, our injustice and inhumanity, in the middle of the Good Friday we’ve made of this world, Christ is there.
November 24, 2019
To listen to this homily click here. The death of the king marked year one in the French Revolution, the beginning of the republic and a new era—an era, of course, of freedom.
November 20, 2020
“The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” (Rev. 11:15)
November 21, 2020
I’ve told his story before, but I’ll tell it again, of the Roman soldier, Marinus, who was martyred in Palestine in the middle of the third century. He was a good soldier, from a family of soldiers; he was due to be promoted, made a centurion of the Tenth Legion of the Strait, the famous legion […]
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 […]
November 28, 2021
“It obliges me,” Mark Twain once said, “to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man…since it now seems plain to me,” he continued, “that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one…the Descent of Man.”[1] It is a biting wit typical of Twain, and, of […]