Approx. read time: 2:30 min. I’m thinking about a phrase I heard recently: Mostly we grow by falling apart. I don’t like falling apart. Yet the patterns in my life prove the wisdom of this phrase. So I wonder: Will our pandemic-riddled world grow by falling apart, as it’s doing now, in order to yield… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:50 min. People have been saying “Good riddance” to the year that is now passed. I understand their feeling. “A year like no other” is shorthand for what is too complicated, too onerous, to recap. The past year was, like every other year, a gift, given in great love and full of… Read more »
Approx. read time: 1:35 min. I do not know how to pray as I ought. I think I do, and then the words multiply as I wrestle with what I am trying to say—as though anything needs to be said, as though I might convince God of my sincerity of heart, my availability, my readiness… Read more »
If we are paying attention, we are being sobered. Here is my Advent prayer. Approx. read time: 0:52 sec. Somehow the familiar language of Advent doesn’t fit anymore. At least, not for me. And maybe not for you, either. We’re in a long season of purification, a painful season of sobering up to the reality that… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:20 min. I want to share with you a story from my ninth book, Living as Jesus Taught. It’s just released and available now for sampling and purchase on my website! And the audio version is here. Byebye Bijou is one of my signature stories. In fact, it’s the story of the… Read more »
Approx. read time: 1:55 min. I’m deleting a lot of emails these days. Dropping scheduled webinars from my calendar. Dialing down the newscasts. Turning off the radio in my head. Not because I don’t care about the pandemic, or elections, the economy, chronic hunger, where the church is headed, nor any of the other concerns… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:20 min. I recently taught an Intro to Catholic Theology class to first-year college students on Catholic Social Teaching. It was the crop-duster version, but at least an introduction. These young people are also first-time voters. So I called my talk “Live, Work, Vote for the Land of the Rightside Up”—my… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:05 minutes The wildfires that have ravaged my beloved McKenzie River Corridor sparked into being a month ago. The evening of Labor Day, to be exact. Sparked, I say, because of downed electrical wires, the unsurprising outcome of a ferocious out-of-season windstorm. A hundred seventy-three thousand acres in the lower McKenzie River… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:00 min. This pandemic may feel like an interruption. But it’s not. It’s a test of what we disciples have learned. How are we doing? These days we can’t gather as church in the ways we are accustomed. So we stream services online. But the hard part is actually being church in… Read more »
Approx. read time: 4:00 min. I am not like my friend Dolores. Twenty years ago Dolores was my hiking buddy. We hiked wherever there was a hill, a butte, a mountain range. Sometimes she would take the lead. Sometimes I would. We’d take in the spectacular riches of Creation as we hiked along. But tree… Read more »
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