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Gratitude on Election Day

In the past two-plus years, it’s been my privilege to make multiple visits to over a dozen countries (predominantly in Africa). Most often in...

The Wake of Injustice

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., compressing an observation by...

Children, Hope, and Our Declining Churches

This review discusses suicide. P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men, describes an unnerving world in which humanity suddenly and collectively loses the ability...

You Lose When You Deny Death

In the first seven years at my parish, I have commended to God the souls of over 40 people. The first ten came in...

An Elegy towards Hope

Stand with me for a moment on the southern shore of a lake only a few miles from where I live in mid-Wales. To...

The Fruit of Anticipation

A few weeks ago, I had the immense privilege of attending a historic football game at Lambeau Field. A friend of my parish offered to...

The Audacious Hope of Advent

Content warning: Miscarriage. The defining feature of my life right now is that I am pregnant. Almost every casual conversation starts with either a “Congratulations!”...

Watching and Waiting

"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or...

What Do Christians Make of Secular Christmas Ads?

I’m one of those people who thinks he doesn’t really enjoy all the secular, cheesy, mass-produced holiday frivolity. I’m a serious person, after all,...

An Apocalyptic Moment

I have written elsewhere about my experience taking a tour as a chaplain at Ground Zero several weeks after the planes struck the World Trade...

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