Fifteen days from today we will determine as a nation who we are. Whether we are better than our ugliest impulses toward racism and...

I read on social media today, so it must be true, that it's World Mental Health Day. Even if it isn't, it's certainly the case that...

A few weeks ago I began to write about the places I'd lived as a rather surface level reflection - what it was like in Illinois or...

While filling out some intake paperwork for a new physician this week, I was asked to list all of the places I've lived, both as a child...

Earlier this week I learned of the death of the son of a dear friend. He was only in his mid thirties and, from all accounts, struggled...

Once upon a time, in southwest Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati, in the town of Monroe, there was a six story tall statue of Jesus,...

(Dear reader....this platform has been a bit glitchy and so this birthday post is sent your way a day late. Apologies!) Today is my...

Somewhere this week it occured to me that autumn is out there, waiting on the fringes of summer. August is giving up its last week. ...

While it's true that wise clergy know better than to let partisan politics find their way into the pulpit, Jesus was political. He just...

It's never too late for love, I thought on Sunday, when I presided at the wedding of two lovely people whose ages I'm not going to share....

This week I talked at length with a friend whose father had died suddenly, without warning, and by today's actuarial schedules, too young....

There's a line in a Eucharistic Prayer that describes God calling forth Creation in whom God took delight. * I am so drawn to this idea...

Today the Church celebrates the ministry of Mary Magdalene, the Apostle to the Apostles, the first to bear the good news of the...

I've been thinking as this day begins, of all of the things I've witnessed in my lifetime. Part of this is trying to take some time to...

Last week we had an old girl staying at our house; she can't hear worth anything and she sleeps a lot, even during the day. But she can...

By now, many in the public square have voiced their opinion on last week's Presidential Debate. President Biden looked old, confused,...

It comes with the territory - that so many people who arrive in my office or inbox or voicemail and want to talk to their pastor bring...

Oh, it's not what some would have us think. It's not Hunter Biden's laptop any more than it was Hillary's emails. Distraction is the...

Recently a friend who lives in the midwest posted a video to social media; in it the first fireflies of the season blinked their lights...