Mourning A Native Son, Remembering A Hidden Wound
As I mourn the loss of Richard Twiss – I am reminded of this hidden wound – this need for a deeper forgiveness and reconciliation through Jesus who calls all nations before the throne of our Father and Creator…
Rediscovering A Christmas Icon: Nicholas the Wonderworker
This Christmas season, let us remember Nicholas’ example and pursue, as he did, a radical devotion to Jesus and the power of embodying GOD’s kingdom in simplicity and, even sometimes hidden, exploits of faith.
The Final Word Is Love by Dorothy Day
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know him in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
Claudio Oliver: Turning Grease Into Gospel (video)
Let Claudio inspire you as well -as you conspire ways to “do small things with great love” in your neighborhood that model and embody GOD’s redemption and reconciliation…
Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell…(book review)
Born in 1924, in southern Mississippi, Campbell came of age in one of the most racially divided parts of the most racially divided state in the Union…Campbell is an ordained Southern Baptist minister but, like most iconoclasts and prophets, no institution could find a good use for him, nor could he for them…
Sleepwalkers and Sinking Ships
In our day, I believe it is urgent for us to heed the prophetic voices that are urging us towards facing the true state of our country and the world. We live in titanic times. Like sleepwalkers, like passengers in our pajamas, we can’t believe the ship could go down…












