Acts of Hope

A few weeks ago I took this picture on the beach in Honolulu, a quick shot with my phone camera, late in the day. The younger woman was t...

I am spending far too much time on Facebook, much of it reading and disseminating articles on the new pope, Francis. More on him, with some ...

I have been in and out of town, partly for work and partly for the first real summer vacations (yes, plural) I have had in years. I have be...

I know, Garrison Keillor says Lutherans don't do self-promotion, and he is right.  But I'm not a Lutheran, only a member of a churc...

ToujoursDan reminded us on Facebook that today is World Malaria Day . I see that he also has a post about this on his blog. Did you know t...

Deep thanks to all of you who posted condolences and intentions of prayer below in the comments section of my short announcement of the acc...

Our friend Bosco Peters of the fine liturgy website and blog , from Aotearoa New Zealand, is grieving the accidental death of his 18-year-ol...

It's publishing time in the Acts of Hope family this week. On New Year's Eve, my father wrote us (his children and grandchildren an...

You'd think I was a veterinarian or Saint Francis with all these animal posts. This seems to be what consoles and comes easily these day...

Many thanks to Padre Mickey de Panamá and to James Kiefer for their respective reflections on Kamehameha and Emma , King and Queen, Ang...

Jenny Plane Te Paa and I were in a seminar together, "Theologies from the Underside of History," about 12 years ago, early in our...

You think all scholars do in the summer is eat pupusas ? Think again . And again . And again . As you know , there was also this , a week or...

I am deeper and deeper in my summer writing and blogging about feasts and saints' days is going by the wayside (though in non-blog life ...

This one is from Vietnam. In Mary's hand is one of those large conical almost flat Vietnamese hat. Note the chicken(s) in the yard in th...