Creating a space for everyday peace
On Fridays in the church basement, I see glimpses of something precarious and beautiful.
Lent beckons like an open door
For 40 days, we contend with our mortality so that we might know what it means to live.
Imagining a new political economy with Miriam of Nazareth
Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.
Ways to walk
There’s something sacred in choosing to love the world at the speed of walking.
The grace of holding my dying father’s hand during the pandemic
The word contagion comes from the Latin words for “with” and “touch.”
Celebrating Easter on the anniversary of MLK’s death
The first Easter was a wrecked scene of dispirited disciples in the shadows of an insurrection.
Epiphany after a hard year
Lately I find myself returning to the writing of Brian Doyle.
Our masks have unmasked us
There is a parable here of half-hidden faces, wounds, and a lack of love.
The practical wisdom that comes from a pandemic
The question “what are we for?” takes on new meaning these days.
What are we really doing when all we can do is pray—or not even?
It may be Easter, but lament comes more readily than alleluia.
Following the suffering Christ
Discipleship-as-self-improvement doesn’t much resemble the way of Jesus.
In Advent and Christmas, desolation and consolation reside together
This time of year, our inner landscapes can seem as bleak as the outer ones.
Reading the creation story in a dying world
The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.
What if classrooms were shaped by a restorative justice sensibility?
Creating space for a different kind of engagement
Washing feet at a church gathering is a political act
The ritual washing of feet in the way of Jesus witnesses to an alternative social order.
Loving the spiritual-but-not-religious neighbors I am given
They’re my students and colleagues. I want to talk with them, not about them.