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.
June 28, 2019

We Unfit Disciples

“Discipleship is not an offer man makes to Christ,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And it’s the point of this Sunday’s passage from Luke, about being “fit for the kingdom of God” (Lk 9:62).
July 5, 2019

Missing the Marks of Jesus

Our mission is to advance the kingdom of God by making disciples of Jesus.
December 4, 2021

Homily: Forgiveness and Advent

Please forgive the topic; it’s tragic and horrific.
December 12, 2021

Homily: What Shall We Do?

In Advent the Church speaks to us quite clearly, actually.
December 19, 2021

Homily: Faith, Hospitality, and the Visitation of Christ

In the final months of my life as an Anglican minister, in spiritual distress, I made my way to Walsingham in Norfolk to the shrines there dedicated to Our Lady—“England’s Nazareth,” it’s called.
December 24, 2021

Christmas Homily: God Keeps Track