When I Say, Maya Angelou
When I say … “I am a Christian” I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’.” I’m whispering “I was lost, Now I’m found and forgiven.” When I say … “I am […]
When I say … “I am a Christian” I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’.” I’m whispering “I was lost, Now I’m found and forgiven.” When I say … “I am […]
JUSTIN JENNINGS, June 25, 2017 I miss you And your sure and gentle presence I miss you And your quick and beautiful smile I miss you And the way we […]
To sleep, perchance to dream…. Hamlet I learned recently that bees do not sleep. Neither do wasps. I add such trivia to the brain folder that has long held similar […]
My latest read: Creativity Unzipped Creativity Unzipped: Why Your Thoughts Matter. Jan Phillips In the work we create, the stories we tell, there is always the possibility that others will […]
Below is the homily for June 19, 2016. (The Sunday following the killings at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida). Context: If you were to read the New Testament in […]
Adelphopoiesis, or adelphopoiia from the Greek ἀδελφοποίησις, derived from ἀδελφός (adelphos) “brother” and ποιέω (poieō) “I make”, literally “brother-making” is a ceremony practiced historically in some Christian traditions to unite […]
Brigid loved to make beer for the poor every Easter. It was her gift to them in celebration of the greatest of all Christian feasts. Brigid felt we could see […]
This homily was given at Ascension Sunday masses at St. Jude Church, Lewes, Delaware. May 28, 2017 What is the Ascension? Some might say, After the Resurrection , Jesus finished […]
“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats, I didn’t choose […]
ON DEPRESSION Notes from William Styron’s “Darkness Visible” For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto […]
"To see the good truly is to desire it insatiably; not to desire it is not to have known it, and so never to have been free to choose it." ~ David Bentley Hart
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