John
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 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 […]
April 3, 2022
Click here to listen to this homily George Whitefield was one of the greatest preachers in the whole history of Christianity, also one of America’s spiritual fathers (although I think that’s a strange way to put it).
May 1, 2022
To the House of Commons, Winston Churchill once said, “Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of the Gallup Poll.”
May 8, 2022
“My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”[1] Every parent in here knows exactly what Jesus is talking about.