"We are infinite souls inside finite lives and that alone should be enough to explain our incessant and insatiable aching." (Ronald Rolheiser) This is why I - and many of you - have a proclivity toward melancholy. This is the sadness that lives deep down in our souls; that we feel in our bellies. This […]

And so we begin the march toward the shortest day of the year; the darkness descends. Let it come this year; don't fight it. Instead, light the candles early and often. Find a way to create a warm glow in your home, no matter how humble. And let the dark outside remind you that the […]

Psalm 72 says - "Give insight of justice to the king, wisdom to distinguish right from wrong to his son -- that he might judge your people fairly, the poverty-stricken with vision of the just. Let mountains lift up peace for the people and the valleys flower with virtue. May he bring justice to the […]

It is amazing to me how Jesus is being used to justify the exact behaviors he preached so vociferously against. The one who declared that loving our neighbors as ourselves is God's very heartbeat is being used to justify hatred of the most vulnerable. The one who pushed the religious elite of his day to […]

And he is in the face of your neighbor, in the cries of the poor. In the bellies of hungry children, in the prisoner, the sick, the naked, the lost, the lonely, your enemy. Happy Easter, friends. He is risen. Jesus is on the loose. And you have one job -- go find him. And […]

Today is Good Friday, the day we remember Jesus and his crucifixion. Scottish preacher Robert Murray M'Cheyne speaks of the darkness of it all: He was without any comforts of God--no feeling that God loved him-- no feeling that God pitied him--no feeling that God supported him. God was his sun before--now that sun became […]