Originally published: May 13, 2025Today’s passage from the Wisdom of Solomon is resting heavy on my heart. It reads like a whisper from the ancient world into our own, and yet it thunders with startling clarity:“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us…”In recent days, as I’ve sat…
Originally Published: May 12, 2025This morning, I sat in the warmth of the sun, my Bible open, the sounds of spring surrounding me, and the Wisdom of Solomon pierced my soul.“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man… he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions.”How ancient, and yet how painfully contemporary these…
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 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 17,2025They hoard thunderin their clenched fists,calling it sovereignty,as if sound alone could summon eternity.They beat drums of warto drown the silence of their hollow souls,marching in circlesaround altars built of fear.But no tyrant sleeps soundly.They are dreamless men,haunted not by ghosts—but by the absence of God.See how they clingto perishable crowns,golden circlets…
Originally published: April 17,2025You who try to justify your crueltyby law, by policy, by Scripture twisted into chainsYou who bomb the innocent and call it peace,who deport the desperate and call it order,who deny care to the sick and call it economics, who lock away the hungry and say they should have tried harderThe Lord…
Originally published: April 17,2025 This morning, I’ve been sitting quietly with John 13. A sacred moment unfolds before us—Jesus, on the eve of betrayal, takes off his outer robe, wraps a towel around himself, pours water into a basin, and kneels to wash the feet of his disciples.He doesn’t preach.He doesn’t perform.He simply serves.And in…
(Originally published: April 16,2025)A Holy Week Reflection on John 13:21–32 Today, I am tired.Not the kind of tired a nap can fix, but the kind that settles in your bones when you’ve been holding too much for too long. The kind that comes from standing at the intersection of grief and hope for too many…
Originally Published: April 15,2025 Dear Friends in Christ, As we walk once more the sacred road of Holy Week, I write with a heart both heavy and resolute. I know you feel it too—the ache of the world pressing in, the sacred weight of our calling, the unspeakable sorrow we carry for the people we…
Originally published: April 15,2025 “Sir, we wish to see Jesus…” These words echo across time and space, don’t they?They could just as easily have been spoken today—from a grieving mother on the Gaza border, from a transgender teen seeking sanctuary, from a migrant family at our southern border, from a young person despairing at the…