Luke
March 16, 2020
It was inevitable, a question of when and not if.
February 28, 2020
Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.
February 21, 2020
Think with me, please, on the organ and the organist. There’s something to learn.
January 17, 2020
What if, saving our bodies, we destroy our souls?
December 20, 2019
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?
February 27, 2022
As Churchill called it, “the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime”—new entries are being written in it.[1] Everyday all over the world, we add to it, of course; but not in Europe, not in this way, what we’ve seen this week, for a very long time.
March 6, 2022
As far as I know, the devil told the truth only once, centuries ago in the dark deserts of Egypt.
March 27, 2022
What do we do with the mercy of God? To be honest, I don’t really know.
July 10, 2022
I can’t say I feel all that fit to preach today, given how I failed this gospel just a few days ago.
July 23, 2022
Kathleen Norris, the spiritual writer, said it was a “force we ignore at our peril.”[1] She was talking about the spiritual affliction, the wicked thought, the sin called acedia—sometimes called sloth. Which happens to the best of us, many of us (which was Norris’ point).
August 7, 2022
Let’s review what we’ve heard these past few weeks. Let’s review what Jesus said.