Acts of Hope

I meant to post this at the beginning of Ramadan (also pronounced Ramazan) as I did on Facebook, but got bogged down in a major work p...

Posted the paragraphs below the photo yesterday after noon (Sunday , May 5) on Facebook - and (why was I surprised?) though I felt like a vo...

During Lent I read excerpts from a book by David G.R. Keller (an Episcopal priest and scholar)  Desert Banquet: A Year of Wisdom from ...

Greetings, friends. The blog has been dormant for two and a half months for a variety of reasons: some travel, the start of the academic ye...

Happy Feast of Ignatius of Loyola! This is a link to a [2007] blog post about Ignatius, his feast, his rooms in Rome (which I had the jo...

S pecial warm wishes to those for whom New Year's Eve and Day are difficult. May you discover hope and consolation in the struggle; ma...

The writing crawls along. Some days are worse than others. In other news, my paperback publisher has a sale on my book on prayer at deep ...

A day at home writing after an intense half-week of teaching. Thus lots of opportunity to procrastinate (or take comforting breaks, dependin...

We had a little conversation going on Facebook last night about the appropriate music to accompany end-of-semester grading. I raised the que...