Courage

May 25, 2022

Column: The Hellish Loop of Gun Violence

March 2, 2022

Column: Winnie-the-Pooh and Lent

September 15, 2021

Column: On the Heartbeat Act

Let’s remember, it’s a kind of war.
April 2, 2021

Column: Scars and Peace

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

Column: Cold and Creatureliness

Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021

Column: Freedom Revealed in a Myanmar Nun

A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
May 26, 2019

Homily: The Bravery of Love (Jn 14:23-29)

The guardians of Plato’s just city had to be brave.
November 8, 2019

Heaven and the Cause of Courage

“Easter should make rebels of us all,” wrote David Bentley Hart, an ornery theologian I happen to like. It’s one of my favorite things he’s ever said. And it is, in short, the moral of these readings from the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, that our faith should give us courage, rebellious courage.
November 10, 2019

Homily: Martyrs and Angels and Christian Courage

You wouldn’t think it, necessarily, but early Christian martyrs were often funny. They weren’t pious wimps singing hymns while being led away to torture and death. More often than not they were sardonic, sarcastic, and smart-mouthed.
November 15, 2019

When Christianity is Fake

“It will lead to your giving testimony,” Jesus said (Lk 21:13).
May 10, 2020

Homily: Courage Commanded

They thought he was crazy to rebuild that ruined old church.
September 4, 2022

Homily: Cowardice or Courage?

It’s a bit jaundiced but probably true, what Mark Twain said.