June 18th, 2015
I woke up this morning with the tragic news that nine people were killed last night at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston...
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,...
Lost Girls
"In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters," Michelle Obama The abduction of over 200 girls from a rural school in North...
Bleeding Chester
An ancient Rabbi was once asked why God respond to the cries of the Israelites in bondage at the moment He did, as opposed to their...
Why Resident Exile- Monday After Super Bowl
The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is...
