One Man’s Experience of Being Christian in the Holy Land Today
During Advent this year, I’m focusing much of my attention on the experience of Christians in the Holy Land today. This is because I served as spiritual director for a pilgrimage from St. Philip’s to the Holy Land last month. In this post, I want to focus on the...
Honoring the Publication of a New Book of Homilies: A Prisoner and You Visited Me
Along with Advent comes the liturgical new year. This also means that the latest book in the Homilists for the Homeless series has now been published. A Prisoner and You Visited Me gathers homilies from a variety of well-known Christian leaders (like Richard Rohr, Jan...
Palestinian Christians Face Impossible Choices in the Holy Land
Henry and I recently returned from a long-awaited (and repeatedly postponed!) pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We first traveled there in January 2017 and I blogged about it quite a bit after my return. I sense that this time will be the same, as there’s already so much I...
The Cab Ride and Our Need for Silence
Once upon a time, my husband Henry drove a cab for a living. Even after we met and married, he continued to drive the 2 pm to 2 am shift on Saturdays because he loved the people he met and the experiences he had. He has told me a number of stories about that work, and...
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