Joshua Whitfield
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 2, 2025
Our modern way of life, the pace of our contemporary world, has done much to obscure the ancient way of Christ.
January 12, 2025
If you step back to consider the whole—that is, the whole liturgical year—you will begin to understand what the Church is teaching us Sunday by Sunday.
January 5, 2025
Preaching, centuries ago, on this feast of the Epiphany, St. Augustine ended his sermon with a rhetorical flourish.
December 24, 2024
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great Cistercian, said once that the Christmas homily should be brief—shorter than normal.
December 22, 2024
Martin Buber, the great Jewish thinker, said once that “The Shekinah is between beings.”[1] Now the word Shekinah is sometimes translated “glory,” yet it is not some ordinary glory but the glory of the presence of God, the dwelling of God; the idea is kind of synonymous with the “word” of God or even the “face” […]
December 15, 2024
Close readers of Luke will recall that the question we hear asked today, the question—“What then shall we do?”—which is found in Luke 3:10, is the same question found in Acts 2:37.