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.
February 7, 2020

Salt and Light and Vanishing Christianity

“For if we consider the life of Christians in our churches…they have no style of life.” -Jacques Ellul
February 9, 2020

Homily: The First Thing You Should Know

In the novel An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch there’s a scene at the beginning of the death of the matriarch of a well-to-do middle-class family in London. The nearly-deceased was not really loved, or at least there was little positive affection in a family comprised of members so benignly self-centered. They were awkwardly present at […]