March 16, 2020

Column: Fear, Hope, and the Coronavirus

It was inevitable, a question of when and not if.
February 28, 2020

Column: On Holiness after Jean Vanier

Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.
February 21, 2020

Column: What Your Church Organist Can Teach You

Think with me, please, on the organ and the organist. There’s something to learn.
January 17, 2020

Column: What is Violence Doing to Our Souls?

What if, saving our bodies, we destroy our souls?
December 20, 2019

Column: Hope is the Inverse of Cancel Culture

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?
December 8, 2019

Column: Civil War or Reign of Terror?

Are we headed for civil war?
February 27, 2022

Homily: A Ukrainian Lent

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

Homily: Dealing With The Devil

As far as I know, the devil told the truth only once, centuries ago in the dark deserts of Egypt.
March 27, 2022

Homily: Mercy for the Prodigal

What do we do with the mercy of God? To be honest, I don’t really know.
July 10, 2022

Homily: The Fear to Go and Do Likewise

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

Homily: Peace, Joy, and Defeating the Noonday Demon

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

Homily: Grown-Up Christianity

Let’s review what we’ve heard these past few weeks. Let’s review what Jesus said.