Acts of Hope

The following essay appeared in the March 10, 1989 issue of the Catholic lay-edited magazine Commonweal under the title "When the Spiri...

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 ...

Joseph of Arimathea Speaks a meditation on the fourteenth station of the cross "Jesus is laid in the tomb." St. Mary...

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...

I am always moved and inspired by the Stations of the Cross at St. Mary's House. (Yes, Episcopalians have Stations of the Cross, thou...

My Liberal Identity You are a Working Class Warrior , also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is g...

A couple of months ago I rediscovered this old poem by Marge Piercy . It is from her book The Moon Is Always Female . What can they do to...

My open letter to Anne Rice , an essay on the church, its flaws, and why you can't be a Jesus-person alone in a corner, is up at the Ep...

Lord, it is night. The night is for stillness. ** Let us be still in the presence of God. It is night after a long day. ** What has been don...

Inside the house, Jane continues to write and edit and pace the floor and +Maya sleeps, plays, and pesters Jane for treats, but only when Ja...

My friend Luiz Coelho has made his Stations of the Cross of Globalization available as a free download. You can find the download link here ...

Andy, in the comments to the previous post, recommended this wonderful pdf-format slide show . It's actually a book available in exhibi...

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no e...