March 16, 2020

Column: Fear, Hope, and the Coronavirus

It was inevitable, a question of when and not if.
February 28, 2020

Column: On Holiness after Jean Vanier

Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.
February 21, 2020

Column: What Your Church Organist Can Teach You

Think with me, please, on the organ and the organist. There’s something to learn.
January 17, 2020

Column: What is Violence Doing to Our Souls?

What if, saving our bodies, we destroy our souls?
December 20, 2019

Column: Hope is the Inverse of Cancel Culture

Can we imagine enemies as friends, or an addict who’s finally free? What about your husband, your wife, your own hard heart? Can you imagine these surprisingly new? What about us? Can we imagine ourselves beautifully better, different? Can we conceive it? Is it even sensible to try, to ask these questions of hope?
December 8, 2019

Column: Civil War or Reign of Terror?

Are we headed for civil war?
February 23, 2020

Homily: How Christians Die by Love

To listen to this homily click here! At the beginning, he made us in his image.[1] And he made us, it says in Genesis, for the simple purpose of companionship. “It is not good for the man to be alone,” God said.[2] So it was that in that paradise place there was shared a love between […]
February 24, 2020

Love: A Theological Meditation on Lent

For Saint Augustine, love proved everything.
March 14, 2020

Homily: That Love that Loves the Worst

Just before his death, so the story goes, Saint Augustine excommunicated himself.
October 18, 2020

Homily: Ignoring Caesar, Giving God What’s His

Click here to listen to this homily. The idea that we should care for the sick and the suffering is, of course, relatively new in the history of humanity.
October 22, 2020

Loving Well By Loving Well

“But to live a just and holy life,” St. Augustine writes, is “to love things, that is to say, in the right order.”
October 25, 2020

Homily: What Are You Going Through?

Click here to listen to this homily. It was the prophet Jeremiah that was doomed to preach the doom of the kingdom of Judah, a calling to which he was faithful all his bitter life. Preaching to a people too proud of their heritage, too presumptuous and assured of the blessing of God upon them, they […]