But Now We See

Why do we get caught up in culture wars, arguing about what is sinful and who’s at fault? Worse yet, good church folk are not the only ones arguing about who’s got God on their side. Parties and nations do it too. Religiousity has entered our political realm at full volume. In today’s gospel reading, […]

Waiting: The Seedbed of Hope

Everywhere I go, people are busy with their cell phones: scrolling through emails, muttering messages, playing games or watching some video snippet. Filling time with our cell phones is now possible, and so we do it because others are doing it. On the Metro, in line at the grocery store, or sitting in a doctor’s […]

Body and Spirit

When I was younger, I noticed how people a lot older than me talked a lot about their health, mainly their aches and pains and the next doctor’s visit or medical procedure. Now at a more advanced age, I am doing the same thing! Mercy. But it sure has me reflecting on the body’s amazing […]

O Dust, Arise! – Apr. 22, 2021

The clearing rests in song and shade,it is a creature madeby old light held in soil and leaf,by human joy and grief,by human work,fidelity of sight and stroke,by rain, by water onthe parent stone.We join our work to Heaven’s gift,our hope to what is left,that field and woods at last agreein an economyof widest worth,High […]