Origionally Published: June 1, 2025Raise the flag in celebration and defiance.Raise it for the deadCameron Thompson, age 26.Shot in the streets of Chicago,Black and trans,and barely a headline.Raise it for Dymond “Tayy” Dior Thomas,stabbed in the Bronx.Misgendered in the news.Buried under apathy.Raise it for the 32 trans and gender-expansive people murdered in America last year,that…
Originally Published: May 31, 2025 May we be shaken, not gently, not poetically,but hard like a nation waking in the nightto find that Christ has been knockingat our borders and we have been too afraid, too busy,too proud to let Him in.May we be shaken by the truththat the Mother of our Lord was a…
Originally published: May 21, 2025“For all people who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know the one who exists.” (Wisdom of Solomon 13:1)There is so much beauty in the world.The blaze of a sunrise.The rhythm of the sea.The miracle of a…
Originally published: April 25, 2025Recently, I was asked, “Who is your favorite theologian?”I smiled and answered without hesitation — my colleagues.Not because the greats—Augustine, Aquinas, Julian, Barth, Bonhoeffer—haven’t shaped me.Not because I don’t find wisdom in books worn thin with study.But because theology, at its heart, is not only written — it is lived.It is…
Originally published: April 24, 2025I am not a director of things,but a witness to the breaking.Not a strategist of systems,but a steward of stories.I do not run an enterpriseI carry the oilthat anoints the broken places.I am a priest.I walk not on carpeted boardrooms,but on holy groundbarefoot,breath held,heart cracked open wideto let the Spirit through.I…
Originally Published: April 23, 2025We’ve all walked itthe road to Emmaus.Weary from the week,discouraged by the headlines,wondering if hope is still alive.Like the two disciples,we rehearse our disappointments,naming all the thingsthat didn’t go the way we thought they would.We try to make sense of a worldthat crucifies love and buries justice.And yet—even in our confusion,even…
Originally published: April 22, 2025Today’s Gospel is one of promise spoken in the language of love. Jesus, aware of what lies ahead, assures his disciples that although he is going, he will not leave them abandoned. He offers the presence of the Advocate—the Holy Spirit—to dwell within them, to be their comforter, counselor, and companion…
Originally published: April 21, 2025This morning, I sat beside the sea.Not to seek answers,but to listen.The tide spoke in hushed syllables,gentle as breath,and the boats came and went like prayerssome arriving, some departing,each held by something unseen.It is Easter Monday.And though yesterday rang with Alleluias,today feels quieter—like the soft hum after a hymn,the stillness of…
Originally published: April 19, 2025This is the day between.Between nailed fists and risen hands.Between breath stolen and breath restored.Between empire’s cold triumphand love’s defiant return.We live here—in the ache between crucifixionand resurrection.We walk among the tombs.We carry the spices of mourning.We kneel beside graves with no names.And we whisper to God,“How long?”This is Holy Saturday.Where…
Originally Published: April 18, 2025 It was already night when Judas left.The air was thick with knowing—knowing that love had been twisted into betrayal, that silver had bought silence,that death was already en route. And Jesus felt it all.The weight.The fracture.The sting of goodbye from a friend’s lips. He didn’t run. He didn’t shout. He…