Pope and circumstance
So today we have a Pope retiring at 85—citing weariness of mind and body, an inability to keep the regimen of the Office—and every news outlet has used words li...
Category: Spirituality
What good is a monk?
This morning I miss Father James, gone now coming four years. I visited three times a year for seven years—that’s 21 cups of tea, give or take. Not a long...
Adam and Eve—a new telling—flesh of our flesh
The earliest stories I remember hearing were in Sunday School, read from the first book of the Old Testament. The language sounded odd, elevated; and what our b...
Give us wine
And wine that maketh glad the heart… Psalm 104 Give us, O Lord, for the politicians who keep their word, the wine of wonderment. Then Lord, give us the wi...