Why Four Gospels- A Holy Week Meditation
Lent and Holy Week bring out strange media events. There is the parade of "exposes" by all manner of skeptics that propose to offer new...
Into the Mystic- Living into the Transcendent God
Van Morrison is the John Donne of blue-eyed soul*. Into the Mystic is my personal favorite. It is rare for a song or poem to be equally...
The Unintended Wilderness of Contemporary Christianity or “I’ve been through the desert with an apoc
The silence was actually getting to me. Instead of welcoming the solitude as an opportunity to pray and work on multiple projects, it...
Obstacles to the Dream
My political worldview was permanently imprinted by the events of 1968. On TV, I watched soldiers and children dying in Viet Nam; Martin...
Is Righteous Anger An Oxymoron?
This week I was invited to give a guest lecture on St John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul and I was reminded what an amazing but...
Dead Young Men & July 4th
There is no difference between blood and blood. A murderer is a murderer, no matter his nationality and age. There is no justification,...