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Sabbatical - The Gift of Rest and Renewal

Beloved in Christ,As I write this, I am wrapping up the last few days before I leave for a three-month sabbatical. This will be my first in more than twenty-four years of ordained ministry. I am...

Pentecost

Beloved in Christ, In John’s version of Pentecost, Jesus’ followers are hiding in a locked room for fear of the civil and religious authorities. Having just seen those author...

"Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise"

Beloved in Christ,The modern world has shaped us with a largely unexamined bias against the supernatural and the inexplicable. Ironically, we take it on unquestioned faith that anything not rational o...

In What Do We Place Our Hope?

Hope is the capacity to anticipate and imagine a better future. In our epistle reading for this Sunday from 1 Peter, the author urges us to “Always be ready to make your defense to anyone...

Alive! Alive!

Beloved in Christ, One of the best novels I have read in recent years is Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (which has been recently made into a movie). It’s the story of an astronaut fr...

Living in Easter's Light

Beloved in Christ, One of the things I seem to have to learn over and over again is that most things in life become much easier when we simply pay attention. Concepts or problems that seem ...

Easter's Disruptive Invitation

Beloved in Christ, In Matthew’s gospel, Easter arrives as an earthquake. Two women who had been following Jesus arrive at the tomb a few days after they watched their friend brutalized and exec...

Healing, Liberating, World-Saving Joy

Beloved in Christ, In my homily for the three Chrism Masses held this week across the diocese (a traditional Holy Week liturgy where the holy oil, or chrism, used in baptism is consecrated and cl...

Shared Identity

Beloved in Christ, This is a day of extraordinary significance in the history of Christianity. Earlier this morning, Archbishop Sarah Mullally was formally seated in the chair of St. August...

Resurrection Hope

Beloved in Christ, In the gospel lesson appointed for Sunday, Martha comes rushing out to meet Jesus on the road after her brother Lazarus has died. She carries with her the crushing weight...

Seeing Through the Filter

Beloved in Christ, One delusion of modern life is the assumption that it is possible to see the world objectively, and without bias. Our brains take in about eleven million bits of informat...

Practicing Trust and Falling

February 25, 2026

Beloved in Christ, At one point during Bad Bunny’s Superbowl Halftime Show earlier this month, he fell backwards off a tall platform, and was caught in the arms of the dancers below. It w...

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