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Conflict is inevitable and today’s readings - every single one of them - brings that directly to our attention. Conflict is inevitable...

Today’s reading from Isaiah paints a remarkable, beautiful composite of images: Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of...

If truth be told, I have to admit that I am exhausted. I mean, deeply physically, emotionally and mentally done in. Stretched beyond my...

Today’s readings are full of timeless one-liners in the Christian playbook. Joshua makes the iconic declaration that “As for me and my...

It is easy for me to imagine that people today, both outside and within the Church, might have a perspective not too distant from the...

I laughed when I read today’s first reading. This excerpt from Elijah has been the subject of several memes (if your algorithm looks like...

A number of years ago I went to a First Communion Mass and the priest offering the homily made it very relatable to the children in ways...

I wonder if today’s reading from the Prophet Jeremiah was applied to today’s Church how we would fare. I don’t think we would do very...

The story of the disciples being sent out two by two, without taking anything with them, is Good News! The Good News is that we don’t...

Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...

When we are children, we imagine endless possibilities for our play. With our imagination, we can be astronauts, chefs, royalty,...

If I tell the story of how I came into ministry, I can tell you what time of the year it was, where I was standing, and what I was doing....

As a high school theology teacher and new mother, I often find myself revisiting biblical stories that I have heard and read hundreds of...

My two-year-old son doesn’t understand much about our faith yet, but he knows that the shape of a cross is associated with Jesus. One...

Trinity Sunday can at once feel both mundane and inaccessible. We call upon the name of the Trinity in our prayer so often that the...

Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...

As someone 2,000+ years removed from Christ’s death and resurrection, I can find it easy to chuckle at the apostles’ lack of...

F-R-I-E-N-D. We all know what that spells. Friends are the best gift we can have. Friendship can get us through any sorrow, hardship,...

Growing up I found this passage of the gospel concerning the vines and the branches to be fairly straightforward. Then I began...

In Heather McGhee’s book, The Sum of Us, she tells the story of the drained public pool. In the 1920s and 1930s, there were massive...