Originally published: June 6, 2025 The Shepherd is walkingnot above us, but among us,not behind a throne, but in the pasture,mud on His robe, lamb in His arms.He sees the bruised and the broken,the trampled and the tired,and He weeps for the oneswho were pushed from the streamby those who drank deep and walked away.He…
Ezekiel 34:17–31” Originally published: June 6, 2025 There are moments in scripture when God’s voice breaks through not only as a call but as a cry. Ezekiel 34 is one such moment. First, God grieves the failure of shepherds, the leaders who were meant to guide and guard the people. But then, in verses 17–31,…
Originally published: June 3, 2025O Holy One,Keeper of tears and witness to injustice,I come to You not with answers,but with ache.I am tired, Lord.Tired of the cruelty masked as law,Tired of silence that blesses oppression,Tired of watching Your children,queer, brown, immigrant, poorbe trampled underfootwhile the empire sings its anthem.I do not belong in this world,not…
Gospel: Matthew 24:9–14 Originally Published: June 3, 2025 “Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name… But the one who endures to the end will be saved.” Matthew 24:9,13Today we remember the Martyrs of Uganda, forty-five…
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 30, 2025 This morning, I awoke with a weight in my spirit, a grief too great for silence. The images flooding my mind are not from some far-off dystopia. They are from the here and now. Vans sweeping up fathers on their way to work. Mothers clinging to their children. ICE agents…
Originally published: May 28,2025On the eve of the Ascension, we pause to remember that Christ, Wisdom incarnate, once walked among us. The poetic voice of Baruch marvels that divine Wisdom, once hidden, chose to dwell with humanity. And tomorrow, we celebrate the moment that same Wisdom, now risen and glorified, returns to the Father, not…
On this Memorial Day, our nation pauses, not simply for a long weekend or the unofficial start of summer, but to remember. As a priest and as a military mother, this day holds deep and complicated meaning. It is draped in both reverence and ache. We gather on grassy lawns and at seaside ceremonies, amid…
Originally published: May 24, 2025 There are moments in life when the waters rise so high we fear we will drown. When injustice surges, cruelty marches forward, and the ones in power seem untouchable. When we feel small, overlooked, or pushed to the margins. These are the Egypt moments—when the systems and spirits that enslave…