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February 2026

February 15, 2026

The World Can Shine Like Transfiguration

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

December 2025

December 04, 2025

What it is Like to Trust

It's hard to believe that our corgi Bovina, the love and center of Jeanne's and...

November 2025

November 30, 2025

Advent is Here–All Things are Become New

I have said many times that Advent is my favorite liturgical season--this year it promises...

August 2025

August 24, 2025

When We Say What We Don’t Believe

Today's appointed lectionary Psalm is one of my two or three favorites of all of...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

Longing to be Whole: A Transfiguration Sunday Reflection

This coming Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning...

February 23, 2025

What Happens When We Pray?

In her spiritual memoir Still, Lauren Winner begins a brief chapter on prayer by noting...

December 2024

December 17, 2024

My Advent Wish for You

For many reasons, Advent is my favorite liturgical season. The "Postlude" of my forthcoming book...

December 10, 2024

He Is Like a Refiner’s Fire

The reading from the Jewish scriptures for last Sunday's Second Sunday of Advent was from...

November 2024

November 12, 2024

Darkness, Silence, and Prayer

One Sunday some time ago as I was listening to our local NPR station in...

May 2024

May 14, 2024

Perfection or Slight Improvement?

As I begin work on the final version of my forthcoming book A Year of...

January 2024

January 30, 2024

What Sort of Bubble Do You Live In?

In my last post I wrote about being comfortable in my own skin as an...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

The Difference Between Goats and GOATs

The last Sunday before Advent and the beginning of a new liturgical calendar year is...

July 2023

July 08, 2023

What We Can Learn about Trust from a Corgi

It's hard to believe that our corgi Bovina, the love and center of Jeanne's and...

June 2023

June 11, 2023

Have an Introspective Day

In our three years in Milwaukee, our first years together as a married couple trying...

February 2023

February 19, 2023

Longing to be Whole: A Reflection for Transfiguration Sunday

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent....

December 2022

December 22, 2022

Returning Straight to Jesus at Christmas

This has been an unusual Advent season. Advent is my favorite season in the liturgical...

July 2022

July 30, 2022

Some Crooked Things Don’t Need to be Made Straight

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

Making Darkness and Silence your Friends

Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again. “The Sound of Silence”...

April 2022

April 06, 2022

Perfection or Slight Improvment?

I have no idea why or how Miss Katrina Munn, a graduate of Julliard School...

March 2022

March 23, 2022

Have Yourself an Introspective Day

In our three years in Milwaukee, our first years together as a married couple trying...

December 2021

December 17, 2021

“For Unto Us”: An Afternoon with Handel’s Messiah

The soundtrack of my youth is classical music. I was classically trained on the piano...

October 2021

October 17, 2021

The Music of the Book of Job

When discussing which Biblical text or texts we should include in our new “Faith and...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

Christians Should Pay Less Attention to Their Souls, and More Attention to Their Bodies

“What’s the difference between chili con carne and chili con queso?” I ask my freshman...

April 2021

April 06, 2021

Diary of a Pandemic Organist

After more than a year hiatus, I found myself sitting at the organ bench at...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

A Palm Sunday Reflection on Power and Love

Today is Palm Sunday, one of the most dramatic days on the liturgical calendar. But...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Am I Old Yet?

A few days before Christmas, Jeanne and I were talking with a friend of hers...

December 27, 2020

A Different Kind of Christmas Story

Because of Covid-19, a less-than-smooth transition from one administration to another, and a general impatience...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Hope: The Thing with Feathers

During his first speech as the new President-elect last Saturday evening, Joe Biden quoted lines...

October 2020

October 08, 2020

Bombing Raids and a Spark of the Divine

Perhaps a novel whose main character is the squadron leader for World War II bombing...

June 2020

June 05, 2020

From Solitude to God

The building looked like the love child of a logic problem and a crossword puzzle....

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