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The two-word phrase we need to stop using
As a kid, I was too into comic books. As a teenager, I was too into civil rights. As a college student, I was too into critical theory. As a young adult, I was too into deep thinking. As a priest, I’m too into theology. Forever a nerd. Always told that I’m “too into” something.…
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What Exactly Are We Never Forgetting?
You’ve heard the calls to #NeverForget. Tragedy and trauma bring out sudden calls for solidarity and collective memory. As if time whisks away such frightening moments like a vapor. A morning mist dried by the first direct rays of sun. That this is in direct contrast to our society’s instruction in the midst of personal tragedy is…
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Why We Chose to Send Our Son to Kindergarten
Every parent wants the best for their kid. We want them to have every opportunity and live the life of their dreams. We want them to have every chance at success. We want it so bad. But do we ever stop to ask if our hopes for them are the right hopes or our sense…
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Invited to the Feast
Rose and I were newlyweds. We were married almost a year when I lost my ring. It was at the end of school–literally the last day of my second year, and I was about to drive back over the border from Ontario into Michigan. Needless to say, I was freaking out. Proper 19C | Luke…
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Lost – a poem about the crippling power of loneliness
LOST Sitting down to feast on bread baked with aromatic spices with a salad topped with vinegar and oil, a pasta perhaps or lamb roasted to a crisp skin but a center so tender it slides off as you pick up the bone, and the wine oh the wine! it flows and the bottles…
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Not By Scripture Alone – A Faith Beyond Sola Scriptura
It was an American Literature class. We read short stories and poetry and each day my classmates would slump into their seats unprepared to talk about Hawthorne or Whitman. I could tell when the teacher’s frustration was high because she’d call on me, even when I didn’t raise my hand. She knew she could get something…
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Loving Joy
Imagine going to a new doctor and receiving this included in the instructions: “make sure you take time for yourself every day – personal time – to relax/do your favorite activity – even if only for a short period.” One of my favorite writers described this experience of being prescribed “joy”. Of having to rediscover…
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When Jesus Tweets
This morning’s gospel is like a Facebook post. It begins divisively, then starts to sound rational, and then ends with an unattainable call to action full of shame. With a passage like this, Jesus could totally win the internet. Proper 18C | Luke 14:25-33 I’m gonna guess that like any good Facebook post, there’s going…
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