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February 2017

February 10, 2017
I've never been good at beauty. Yes, of course I can in some sense understand...
February 08, 2017
“I don’t care to wake up in the morning without hope. Hope is a survival...

January 2017

January 06, 2017
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And...

November 2016

November 22, 2016
The towering redwoods of northern California have always mystified me. I'm constantly swept away with...
November 19, 2016
I can't remember precisely what his answer was, but it was not the enthusiastic one...

September 2016

September 06, 2016
Listening to the voice of my heart has never come easy for me. I'm usually...
September 01, 2016
Flannery O’Connor once said in justification of her fiction that, in a deaf culture, one...

August 2016

August 27, 2016
This post is part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity:  Identity and its Discontents." ...
August 22, 2016
When I was approached by the Patheos Catholic channel editors to create a contemplative blogging...

July 2016

July 14, 2016
The bells began to ring just outside my window for Vigils, 3:15 am prayer, and...
July 12, 2016
Exhausted. Spent. So weary of words. There are those who seem able to contain it,...
July 06, 2016
It is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, who on this day 114 years ago...

June 2016

June 29, 2016
  Let us imagine a feast. And let us imagine someone too mentally ill to...

May 2016

May 24, 2016
Loneliness. I think above all, this is the single word I want you to remember...
May 21, 2016
In 2012 I began traveling to monasteries for respite, silence, solitude, and space. I started...
May 20, 2016
“Spend 10 or 15 minutes praying for healing.” It doesn’t sound much like penance. Unless...
May 14, 2016
It starts in a room of silence.  A room where disciples are gathered together in...
May 12, 2016
“Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise, but as wise, making...
May 05, 2016
I generally don’t discuss politics. Not because they aren’t important, and not because I don’t...
May 03, 2016
“Is there a pill I can take for that?” said my eight year old son,...

April 2016

April 28, 2016
Sex. It’s what the Song of Solomon is about. But ancient Christian readers were prudes...
April 21, 2016
And there in that land I encountered a strange race of people, to whom was...
April 14, 2016
So, God said to Job, everything’s over and you need to pray for your friends...
April 11, 2016
  In his eminently affable and uncontroversial way, theologian Stanley Hauerwas once suggested he’s a...

March 2016

March 29, 2016
“He is not here.” So were their words when I came upon the tomb and...
March 25, 2016
"The watchmen that went about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me;...
March 22, 2016
In the prior Lenten post on Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out, we finally reached what is both most fundamental...
March 15, 2016
In our journey through Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out, we have discussed the transition from loneliness...
March 08, 2016
  “This is the what makes Christians walk away.”   I was talking to a...
March 01, 2016
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building...
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