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November 27, 2019

Column: Why I’m Thankful for Sinners

As a priest, part of my gig is listening to people tell me their sins.
November 3, 2019

Column: On “Nones” and the New Religion

Religion is not in decline, though such are the headlines.
October 4, 2019

Column: Farewell to a Ballpark

Baseball is a place as much as it is a game.
September 1, 2019

Column: Like the Ancients, We Still Want the Gods in our Politics

No better in our politics than primitives, we still invoke the gods.
August 11, 2019

Column: Human Bonds or Political Bounds?

Rodrigo’s son is Adrian. Adrian is disabled. Rodrigo works three jobs to pay for his care. Rodrigo brought Adrian from Peru to the United States 15 years ago, so he’d receive the best care possible, so he could live. Because Rodrigo loves Adrian, a father and a son.
July 27, 2019

Column: 5 Tips for Preaching to Children

Preaching to children belongs to the work of the priest.
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.
November 27, 2022
"The Supper at Emmaus" by Jacopo Bassano, The Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Homily: Why Can’t You See?

I was walking with Peter, my son, through the museum the other day; he has an eye for beauty. I enjoy talking with him about the paintings we see.
December 3, 2022

Homily: Don’t Repent Backwards

There’s an essay by C. S. Lewis that I have, ever since I first read it as a teenager, always remembered at some of the more frustrating moments of my life, moments especially of interpersonal aggravation.
December 18, 2022

Homily: Taking Mary Home