Recently, I’ve been pursuing instances of “hope,” which, one would think, are usual and non-rare. But if you pay even marginal attention to media, politics, arts … read more

The piece below originally appeared here on Ministry Matters in August of 2015. In the wake of the last few weeks, I decided to read it again and see how both the wider narrative… read more

Then-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in a 2012 address to the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops, boldly said, “The humanity we are growing into in the Spirit, the… read more

If all we had to go on was the Sermon on the Mount, we could reconstruct much of the Gospel, especially its view of how to live well. Running through it is the thread of… read more

The little Zen story of Ryokan, the thief and the moon proffers as lovely an enactment of Jesus’ teachings as one could wish.  Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest… read more

Ultima Thule and ultimate origins While others watched countdowns to midnight on New Year’s Eve, NASA scientists counted down to 12:33 a.m. That’s when the New… read more