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January 2026

January 01, 2026

What’s Next? A New Year’s Day Reflection

It's New Year's Day, a day which for many is a day of anticipation, of...

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...

October 2024

October 15, 2024

Living an Autumn Life

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

May 2024

May 10, 2024

She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom: A Mother’s Day Reflection

Sunday is Mother's Day--it also happens to be Ascension Sunday, so this weekend gets a...

December 2023

December 24, 2023

God Made Into Flesh

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

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Achieiving the Peaceable Kingdom

One Sunday morning a number of years ago, I noticed that a reproduction of a...

May 2023

May 14, 2023

She Opens Her Mouth With Wisdom . . . Her Childen Rise Up and Call Her Blessed

Because of the quirks of the calendar, the anniversary of my father's death and Mother's...

December 2022

December 01, 2022

An Advent Wish: Peace Be to You

Advent began last Sunday. For many reasons, Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

Autumn Peace is a Choice

Today is the first day of autumn. For those who love autumn as I do,...

August 2022

August 07, 2022

This Book Changed My Life: Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead”

I asked my Facebook friends a while ago to list three or four books that...

August 02, 2022

A Trip to the Zoo Reminds Me of My Mother

Jeanne and I hosted our grand-nephews last week--I forgot what it is like to have...

February 2022

February 20, 2022

Faithful Failures–A Presidents’ Day Reflection

It's Presidents’ Day weekend, which for college professors means--as do all Monday holidays in the...

December 2021

December 15, 2021

Advent for Dummies–How to do the season

We seek retreats for ourselves in country places, on beaches and mountains . . ....

May 2021

May 09, 2021

A Mothers Day Reflection: Her Children Rise Up and Call Her Blessed

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

April 2021

April 18, 2021

Surely, I have Set My Soul in Silence and in Peace

It has been thirteen months since our lives changed in ways that we will never...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Grace and Peace Be with You

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

March 2020

March 29, 2020

Step back, be quiet, and be at peace

My friend Mitch, who is the priest-in-charge at the Episcopal church I attend, has asked...

March 10, 2020

Do You Love Your Life?

Although I read all the time--I once told my ophthalmologist that that I read for...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

My Advent Wish: Peace Be To You

Advent begins this coming Sunday. I was raised in a version of Christianity that had...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

Living an Autumn Faith

Yesterday was the first day of autumn, which is good thing, because autumn is (by...

May 2019

May 11, 2019

A Mother’s Day Remembrance: Her Children Rise Up and Call Her Blessed

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

December 2018

December 24, 2018

Christus Natus Est

Christmas movies are a big deal at my house. Jeanne goes for the classics, such...

December 23, 2018

Mary with No Assumptions

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

December 20, 2018

An Advent Reboot

We seek retreats for ourselves in country places, on beaches and mountains . . ....

December 18, 2018

The Season of Grace and Peace

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

December 11, 2018

Advent is for Introverts

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

October 2018

October 11, 2018

How to Live Autumn

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

September 2018

September 11, 2018

Seventeen Years Ago Today

Two years ago, the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 fell on a Sunday. The priest of...

May 2018

May 13, 2018

Her Children Rise Up and Call Her Blessed

I once learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues. He was lecturing...

December 2017

December 07, 2017

Peace Be To You

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

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