hope

Love does not say “I ought to love”—it loves. Pity does not say “It is...

This Christmas season seems more dissonant than most, with violence across the globe, a partial...

I have a colleague and friend with whom I share a lot in common. Eric...

Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck,...

I was raised in a version of Christianity that had no sense of the liturgical...

We’ve all done this, we bang and bang on the door of hope, and don’t...

Just when you thought you had heard and read it all . . . "If...

Each Advent for the past eight years, I have had the privilege of giving a...

As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, I am in a forward-looking and hopeful...

One of my favorite features of liturgical worship is encountering familiar and favorite texts during...

I began Election Day last Tuesday at the gym, riding the stationary bike for an...

A couple of months ago, Jeanne and I saw "Won't You Be My Neighbor?", the...

Is there any true transcendence, or is this idea always a consoling dream projected by...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough was the speaker at Providence College's Commencement exercises...

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. Shakespeare, King Lear This week,...

We should read the New Testament as saying that how we treat each other on...

Dr. Seuss was a regular in our house when my sons were young—my thirty-something sons...

One of stories that was emphasized regularly in the Baptist Sunday school of my youth...

In a couple of weeks, we will be starting a unit in my General Ethics...

The theme of a philosophy conference that I attended a couple of years ago was...

Last Thursday was the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the liturgical day that commemorates King...

Have you never felt like one of those pawns forgotten in a corner of the...

The truth will not set you free, but it will definitely mess your life up. A...

Every fall I spend a week with over one hundred freshman exploring the familiar but...

Autumn is my favorite season, and October is my favorite month. This is not surprising...

In last Sunday's gospel reading, Jesus tells us that those who wish to follow him...

There are reasons to be hopeful--even on those days that Nazis, white supremacists, racists, and...

God has given us everything we need to address the problems in front of us....

Richard Powers write that there’s joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be...

The Apostle Paul wrote that "now abide faith, hope, and love . . ." Easter...