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 18, 2024

Homily: The First Lesson of Lent

For Saint Augustine, that great doctor of the Church and light of theology and civilization, his journey to the faith, his conversion to Christianity, his path to baptism was very painful.