Matthew
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.
August 8, 2020
Enslaved in Egypt, when God told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover meal, he made it clear to them that it was going to be fast food.
September 6, 2020
To listen to this homily click here. Touring the underworld, Dante got distracted.
October 18, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. The idea that we should care for the sick and the suffering is, of course, relatively new in the history of humanity.
October 25, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. It was the prophet Jeremiah that was doomed to preach the doom of the kingdom of Judah, a calling to which he was faithful all his bitter life. Preaching to a people too proud of their heritage, too presumptuous and assured of the blessing of God upon them, they […]
January 1, 2022
The words rhyme in Greek, the language in which these words were written.