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Why I Need a God Who Wears a Cross: A Meditation for Holy Week
It wasn't supposed to be this way. This final victory lap of the book; the last touches on a manuscript that I now a bit bashfully would let other eyes see for the very first time: they were supposed...
View ArticleOur Bodies, Our Spirits- A Mother’s Day Gift
This past weekend as I lay sunbathing on a beach in Santa Monica, California, it seemed like everywhere I turned there was somebody beautiful. The tan, toned, athletic bodies were everywhere, which...
View ArticleMental Health Break- “The Mission” with Ennio Moriccone
The soundtrack to the movie, "The Mission"- about a group of Jesuit missionaries in eighteenth century South America who live and die alongside the indigenous Guarani people, when they are slaughtered...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Millennials
If you tune in to one of my favorite blogs, Andrew Sullivan's The Dish, you'll find an ongoing conversation there about the occasional promise and (more commonly) perils of the generation that follows...
View ArticleGrace in a Dementia Unit
I spend part of Friday morning in the dementia unit at a local assisted living center. (Some mornings getting the kids off to school—barely— I wonder if I belong there.) This past Friday Tom was there...
View ArticleFamous Last Words, a.k.a. “The Great Commission”—A Sermon
[NOTE: If you're noticing an absence of images in recent posts, it's because we're experiencing some technical difficulties uploading images. Thanks for bearing with us!] This Father's Day I'll be...
View ArticleA Christmas Homily
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available...
View ArticleNaked Feet … and the Gift of Reverence
When he slipped his feet into the tub of warm, herb-infused water, he did so almost apologetically. "Thank you," he said, tentatively, an edge of either shyness or embarrassment in his tone as she...
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