After writing last week’s post about the American Rent Is Due sign, I had some further realizations about the inequities Indigenous people still face in America, and I thought I would share one of them today. As a child growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I...
Back in December, Henry and I took a trip to Zion National Park. I’ve shared some winter-wonderland-type photos of that trip on Instagram, but that’s not the focus of my post today. We drove home through the Navajo Nation and were struck and convicted by the sign...
In last week’s post, I wrote about the concept of pilgrimage as a crucible. In this post, I want to share some ideas about expectations from the homily I preached at the Mount of the Beatitudes in Galilee while we were on pilgrimage last November. I’ll share more from...
Happy New Year! As has become a yearly tradition, I led an Advent retreat day at St. Philip’s last month. The theme was Incarnation—the fancy word for God in Christ becoming flesh in Jesus. As we continue living into the season of Christmastide, I thought I would...
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...