“A Terrible Light”
Being reborn is not easy. It is Lazarus being called to life by a “terrible light.”
A Love Note to Anglicanism
Though I find myself today a Byzantine rite priest in communion with Rome, it was in the Anglicanism of my youth that I was formed in many important and providential ways.
Ecological Conversion and the Generations to Come
Perhaps no stronger argument exists for climate action than the health of our children and grandchildren.
Climate change, anxiety, and hope
While I am hardly a climate change “denier,” I do sit uneasily with the evangelical fervor with which many people I know and respect talk of environmental disaster.
Reading Contemplatively
While the decline of contemplative reading is a problem for the professor, it’s a threat to the Christian, especially those of us operating within a sacramental tradition.
Memento Mori: On Death and Evil
Faith strangely exists amidst explicit doubts when we contemplate our death.
Learning to Be God’s Child
Unlike me, God is patient. God is good. God doesn’t need us to pay attention to him but he keeps working at us anyway.
Springsteen, Belonging, and Religion in Blinded by the Light
To be sure, Springsteenism is an ambiguous religiosity. Springsteen, as Roops pronounces, “knows everything you’ve ever felt … and he can describe it better for you.” His music allows one to see the depth and profundity in ordinary life — to see even father-son conflict as “something as old as time,” as Manzoor says, and to respond with empathy. Springsteen himself is a role model of uncommon decency.