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Holy Week in London

by | Apr 29, 2025 | 0 comments

During Holy Week this year, Anita and I took a long-dreamed-of trip to London. We traveled with our son, Eliot, and his wife Tatyana, and being with them added immeasurably to the joy we experienced. Surprisingly, the weather was sunny and warm nearly the whole time...

Too Weary to Change?

by | Mar 28, 2025 | 0 comments

M Cowie, Unsplash These days, laments are often the only prayers I have. I’m simultaneously shocked and unsurprised at the capriciousness, incompetence, and cruelty of political leaders whose vision of the nation and the world is clouded by greed, prejudice, and...

Love, Not Fear

by | Mar 16, 2025 | 0 comments

https://unsplash.com/@tama66 “Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions,” the poet Hafiz said. It’s cheapest only in the sense that it is the shabbiest, least hospitable, and most uncomfortable. In another sense, fear...

The Temptation to Deny Jesus

by | Mar 8, 2025 | 0 comments

When I was a boy, I worried that I would deny Jesus by saying the wrong thing about him. Now, I’m aware that I’m far more likely to deny him by acting in ways that betray his ways and his will. In the church of my childhood, an occasional visiting preacher would ask...

Grief of Jesus

by | Oct 14, 2024

Lately, I’ve imagined that I overhear the grief of Jesus. I hear strains of bewilderment and anger, loneliness and longing, protest and prayer. No wonder his followers have often used words from Isaiah to describe him as: “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.”...