homily
February 5, 2023
Part of my conversion to Catholicism, not uncommonly, involved getting my head around the institution of the papacy—that ancient ministry marked by centuries of history, theology, and politics.
February 12, 2023
Dr. King said that “any preacher who allows his members to tell him what to preach isn’t much of a preacher.”
March 5, 2023
There is a famous story told of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, a Russian monk from the eighteenth century—a “wonderworker,” he’s called.
April 6, 2023
It amazes me still the story from Exodus (a few chapters on from the passage we’ve heard this evening), the story about the elders of Israel, there on the mountain with Moses and Aaron: that mystical moment, that meal, when they ate and drank and saw God. They didn’t die, the sacred text says; they should’ve […]
April 7, 2023
Today’s Roman villain, Pontius Pilate: in some corners of Christianity, he’s considered a saint. The Coptic Church, for instance, thinks he’s a saint, the Ethiopians too. They think he later converted and was martyred.