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April 2025

April 23, 2025
On the surface, this week’s lectionary reading at the end of John (John 20:19-31) is...
April 14, 2025
So many words could describe the current administration’s actions. Among the most salient might be...
April 04, 2025
Recently, a friend offered me a book she'd found at Goodwill. It is my memoir,...

March 2025

March 24, 2025
Autocracy. noun. 1. Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism. When I visit...
March 17, 2025
Have you experienced a loss or misfortune and someone suggested it happened to you because...
March 02, 2025
This week I found my essay written in November 2016, just days after the first...

February 2025

February 24, 2025
Lately I’m reading the political scientist Francis Fukuyama after hearing him speak on struggle. Specifically,...
February 16, 2025
Where Christianity gets especially real, where our faith is put to the test, is right...
February 09, 2025
Last Wednesday, I woke to discover a protest was taking place at noon in the...

January 2025

January 28, 2025
Recently I left for the store and forgot my phone. When, a few blocks from...
January 17, 2025
In the story in this week’s lectionary gospel (John 2:1-11), Jesus tells his mother he...
January 02, 2025
In the new year, I am rethinking prayer. By this I don’t mean that I...

December 2024

December 20, 2024
Today I want to talk about Christmas and waiting. The Christmas season is one of...
December 16, 2024
For decades, I have not been precious about Christmas. This stems from years of having...
December 07, 2024
Perhaps my favorite thing about the Christmas season—just a few days away—is reminding myself and...

November 2024

November 24, 2024
Jesus' metaphor of 'king' is a focus this Sunday in my own tradition (Episcopal). And...
November 12, 2024
For many, it has been a hard week. We all must seek deep solace now...

October 2024

October 29, 2024
Have you, at times, longed for a pathway forward—whether a way out of a stuck...
October 14, 2024
Recently while watching the film Supernova, I heard this quote: “We will not starve for...
October 07, 2024
In 2006, in a time of precarity and despair, some magic happened upon me. Shortly...

September 2024

September 24, 2024
As I approach accompanied by crickets, the sky’s palette ranges from turquoise to dark violet;...
September 11, 2024
I recently heard a Vox podcast about regret. The interviewee, Daniel Pink, wrote a book...
September 05, 2024
It is one of those weeks where everywhere I turn, folks are talking about the...

August 2024

August 27, 2024
Roughly seven years ago; late-summer day under a New Mexico sky, the blue of which...
August 23, 2024
The most inspiring words I’ve heard in the past several years are from a speech...
August 06, 2024
If you have yet to dip your toes into Succession, the HBO series that ended...

July 2024

July 30, 2024
{Meditation on John 6:24-35}. Imagine that someone you love is terminally ill, needing healing, and...
July 23, 2024
In a guestroom, I have a little wooden plaque that says, “Just live your little...
July 16, 2024
I've long appreciated Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens(2014). And I recently enjoyed a discussion of...
July 02, 2024
{A meditation on Mark 6:1-13} Jesus was a small-town guy. His village of Nazareth had...
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