• My 3 Words for 2024

    My 3 Words for 2024

    These are the three words I use to guide the year. It’s a practice I’ve been up to since 2016 and find it helps me focus.

  • Grace Upon Grace

    Grace Upon Grace

    At the heart of the Christmas season is God’s generosity. And our struggle to restrain it works against the very point of the holy day.

  • Beyond Resolutions

    Beyond Resolutions

    As we start planning to make the new year better than the last, let’s prepare to help one another live a better life, with joy and courage.

  • Still Christmas

    Still Christmas

    Episode 60 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Always the Innocents

    Always the Innocents

    The feast day of Holy Innocents is the part of the Christmas story that never makes it into pageants. But we need to hear it each year.

  • On John and his specialness

    On John and his specialness

    In celebrating the Feast of St. John, we are invited into an elaborate depiction of faith which combines multiple figures into one.

  • The Light Comes

    The Light Comes

    In the Feast of Stephen, we confront what light coming to break the darkness looks like in practice—when we face it in our midst.

  • Incarnate Grace

    Incarnate Grace

    John’s gospel invites us to see the scope of what we celebrate at Christmas: that an event changes how we see everything.