It’s not so much what you do that matters to God, it’s who you know and what you did for them.
God isn’t scanning our credentials; God is asking who our friends are. Who do we recognize? Who do we receive? To who do we hand even a cup of cold water?
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The God who hears and sees those who are pushed aside
Ishmael is not a mistake to be cleaned up, he has his own destiny. We imagine that our story is the only one that matters. But that's not true for the God who made all Creation.
Insider or outsider, they are daughters to Jesus
He called the nameless one, daughter, and he calls us by the same name.
The Trinity: It teaches us about who we are, and what AI can’t be.
The encyclical released this week is being characterized primarily as a Critique of AI. But to be frank it’s not so much of AI as of the economics, and particularly the disparity between wealth and poverty that is behind AI’s rise. And also of the exploitation of people, the environment and the spiritual realm that seems to be happening too. Parenthetically: The Encyclical is mostly about the terrifying ways we are abusing power and the […]
Pentecost: Once again, here we are.
The Tower of Babel at its core is a critique of human desire that is separate from God’s action. When nations work their human designs, they are destined to fail. The Day of Pentecost is the recasting of that story.
Ascension not Apotheosis and why that matters
The Ascension, properly understood, says something startling about your body. About your memory. About the specific and particular history that has made you who you are at this moment.
You will not be left orphaned
The self-giving, self-emptying love that we celebrate this weekend of Mother's Day changes everything. And if we have eyes to see it, it is still all around us.
Looking sideways at God
Twenty years ago I was on a late-night radio program in Phoenix with a rabbi and a Christian host who insisted the Bible was simple — just open it and read. The rabbi stiffened. So did I. What followed was one of the most clarifying conversations I’ve had about faith and reason. This Sunday I’m preaching on the Road to Emmaus at St. Martin’s in Providence — a story about two people who walk beside […]
Easter: A New Way of Being in Relationship with Others
Peace that is imposed by force is not the true peace that begins with Easter.
Easter 2026
God will not abandon us to the darkness and to despair. Easter is our destiny.