Mary
April 2, 2021
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
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
July 20, 2019
An old politician was beginning to lose his hearing.
November 23, 2019
“We receive fuller knowledge from the child.”
January 1, 2020
Innumerable things are said of her. But for us, at this moment, let us remember simply that Mary is the first.
April 2, 2021
Why are we here? It’s a good question, an ancient question too.
December 19, 2021
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.
