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...
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...
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