How do we know God? How can we know God, not just theologically, but relationally? Let’s keep these questions in mind as...
Today is the second installment in a series of reflections called Keeping Christmas Well. If you missed my introduction to this series...
There’s just the first touch of frost in the air. Around here, it sets in a little late. The old primordial chill stretches limbs up from the earth, and you can feel it...
Really now, who teaches you how to hold up the piles of taffeta and take the stairs for the Oscars? Who teaches you how to stand up and be famous?
The Seven Last Words of Christ for Holy Week
The Seven Last Words of Christ for Holy Week ...
For centuries, Holy Week was the focal point of the Christian calendar.
When Jesus disturbed and penetrated the sand to heal the man born blind, he disturbed and penetrated the hearts of many who...
We are the artists, made to move into the world awake and alive. But after a long week with lots of work...
There is a big difference between a well and a spring. In a well, you have to go get the water and draw it out of the depths of the earth. A spring...
The prologue of John’s Gospel tells the story of Christmas, but not in the usual manner. We don’t have angels and shepherds...
Merry Christmas! ...
I like to call Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, Jesus’ “stay-at-home” disciples. It seems whenever he is in...
This story of the loaves and fishes is the only miracle story of Jesus found in all...
As I write this reflection, I’m sitting by my Christmas tree, with instrumental carols playing softly in the background.
Jesus’ dark hours remind us there are some roads you must walk alone. ...
I don’t typically think of this passage when I think about Easter. Instead, when I read John’s words, I imagine the two-inch Fontanini baby Jesus swaddled in white cloth, lying in a straw-stuffed.....
Every time I turn around, it seems I’m facing some new obstacle or looming uncertainty. Resistance smacks me in the face whenever I try to take on something worthwhile. ...
The English writer, Dorothy Sayers, made an interesting comment about Jesus’s carpentry: ...
