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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...

Handmade Holidays 2020, Crafts to Give and Enjoy

Now updated with the 3rd in the craft series. In the spirit of going small and homemade for the holidays, as I wrote about previously, I...

Handmade Holidays: A Guide to Celebrating, even in 2020

This is not a time to go big or go home. It's a time to go home and stay small with great love. I’m not the first one to realize that...

Stop the Execution of Childhood Abuse Victims

Dear Community, As we begin to gather with family and friends this Thanksgiving season, every faith tradition asks us to remember people...

Saving Children Begins at Home

Despite what conspiracies may say, the greatest trafficking and abuse threat to children is not posed by strangers, but by people they know.

The Longing to be Known

To be known means you are willing to live with longing your whole life.

Surrender to Love

Surrendering to love, especially in historically difficult times is no easy task and comes with a cost.

Taking a Knee

Taking a knee is an act of humility, courage and civil disobedience.

A Cottonwood Snow

It is to the woods that all lovers of justice retreat every now and again to stir their hearts and minds toward love for all creation.

The Extraordinary

I didn’t take a class, or search the world. I just saw what was before me on this ordinary day in these extraordinary times.

Sharing Toilet Paper as a Spiritual Discipline

When I say offering a roll of toilet paper to someone as a spiritual discipline, I mean it. It is holy and good. Practically divine.

Between the Wilderness and Garden: an Easter Message

Easter doesn’t begin when skies are sunny, the pandemic passes, or justice reigns. It begins while it is still dark and there is only love.

A Glimpse of Pure Love

“Don’t get fooled by all the other glittery objects around you. You will always find love as long as there is a sky above you. ” I have...

Love Beyond Borders: 7 Calls to Action

I recently traveled with a group of Thistle Farmers to the border towns of Mc Allen, Brownsville and Harlingen TX. We visited nonprofits...

Shaking The Dust Off

As I begin, my exit I realized while I pack that I’m shaking the dust off everything. There is rich red dirt that is the foundation of...

Traveling With Friends

The next gift of this trip to Rwanda has been learning and laughing with friends. It allows us to experience getting lost as an...

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