freedom

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.
November 24, 2019

Homily: Killing Kings and Freedom

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.
August 27, 2020

Conform Not

“Do not conform yourself to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…” (Rom 12:2). That’s the lesson today—so simple to hear, so hard to learn.
September 3, 2020

Candor and Love and Real Christianity

What is it to love someone? What is it to speak the truth? What is it to be faithful to God? These are question always present to the preacher, at least the good ones. But they’re also questions for you, for any who seriously call themselves Christians.
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.