April 2, 2021

Homily: Good Friday, On Holding Sadness

Why are we here? It’s a good question, an ancient question too.
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

Homily: Holy Thursday and the Hidden Kingdom

This is the “night he was handed over.”[1] The night the slow murder began.
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 26, 2021

Transfiguration and Hope

What we are is hidden in Christ. Our glory is what is finally the truth about us, love and light in Christ. It’s what was revealed there on Mount Tabor, our destiny in God.