On whether to go back next Sunday
Rise up, O Lord. Today we are heartbroken, and we do not want to sit with that. There must be something to do, or someone to blame, and I would […]
Rise up, O Lord. Today we are heartbroken, and we do not want to sit with that. There must be something to do, or someone to blame, and I would […]
Bright Monday To choose the places where there is hatred, wrong, discord, error, doubt, despair, shadows, sadness; To forego relief, recognition, affirmation, self-interest, and the restitution I’m owed; What kind of life […]
Great and Holy Saturday Jesus said a lot of things he didn’t really mean. He must have, because, c’mon, man. He couldn’t mean the stuff about not worrying, because how […]
Maundy Thursday I’ve lost track of keys, phones, children, but not yet forgotten about me. Despite some practice intended to counteract it, I always remember my self. Self would like […]
Here it is: The fulfillment of the law. The law: All these things we want to do right so we can be right – so we can get loved. And […]
“We lift our hands,” we all sang, but mostly we didn’t raise our hands, because that’s not the way we sing it. This is not strange to us, since in […]
I’m getting behind on Lent. Did you know you can get behind on Lent? I can. There is a kind of self-care that is crucial to our survival. However, there […]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” I remember this because it was on a t-shirt I wore in […]
“I just wanted to make you happy,” say so many characters, in the scene right after everything predictably fell apart, and right before a hug and clean-up montage. I’ve spent a […]
Sometimes, I discover the shadow is my own. Simone Weil, the young French mystic, described individual union with God as becoming a channel between God and all God has made. […]