A Love Letter to God on My 30th Anniversary
Thirty years ago, I knelt in a circle as hands were laid on my head. I was two weeks shy of giving birth to our first son and the whole...
Lay Me Down in Wildflowers: An Easter Message
Lay me down in wildflowers—the harbingers of spring. Every year, no matter how hard or cold it gets in winter, flowers rise. Around the...
Love Lives: A Good Friday Reflection
Being faithful is when you're left holding death in your arms and not letting go. Being faithful is to keep going in spite of fear and grief
An Epiphany for the New Year: We are the Remnant
If you walk down Second Avenue and turn left on Broadway, you can walk within a block from where the bomb devastated our city on...
Why Adore a Baby?
Sometimes Christmas, with all the baby Jesus talk, feels like we are in the Talladega Nights movie scene with Ricky Bobby offering a...
The Luxury of Advent
Waiting... This is the first time in my 30 years as a priest that I have taken in the value of waiting during advent. This has been a...