Waiting with the Unknown
I imagine you’ve had this experience: You make a plan and then watch it fall apart. That happened to me this week. I had my Advent blog series all planned out. I started with this idea of writing about Jesus’ challenging messages, and posted for two weeks on that....
Celebrating a New Book of Homilies: A Stranger and You Welcomed Me
Last month I shared some reflections on pilgrimage as part of a book launch. Today, I’m doing something similar—and one of my homilies is in today’s book, which I also copyedited! A Stranger and You Welcomed Me is the newest edition in a series entitled Homilists for...
Jesus, Challenging Messages, and Closing Out 2020
There’s no question that 2020 has been a tough year. Many great images have encapsulated it, including one I shared around Halloween, humorous new hymns for the seasons, and an image I saw recently on social media (and now have lost—2020?!), of a decorated Christmas...
New Perspectives on Pilgrimage
I was given a gift recently, of the invitation to be part of the “launch team” for a new book on pilgrimage. I first “met” the author virtually, when I interviewed him about another of his books, Future Faith, for the “Future of Christianity” issue of the Center for...
Doing Our Outer and Interior Equity Work
There’s a trajectory in America right now, bending toward November 3 and our elections. Especially this year, voting is not a single-day event. Millions across the country have already voted. My ballot is completed, signed, and sealed, and I will drop it off at a...
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