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Aug 3, 2016
Trees Fall Apart
(With apologies to W. B. Yeats) Blowing and blowing in the river winds the trees cannot bear the weight; Trees fall apart; included bark...
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Aug 1, 2016
Poetry can assuage pain
This is The Bishop’s Institute for Ministry & Leadership August 2016 book review of Carmen Bugan’s "Releasing the Porcelain Birds." Note...
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Jul 10, 2016
"...and who is my neighbor?" Luke 10. 25-37
Suppose we were to...draw the outline of a circle.... Let us suppose that this circle is the world, and that God is the center; the...
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May 24, 2016
Cancer in the Age of Technology
On Friday afternoon at 3:30 one week ago, I trudged into the house after a long hard first week back to teaching, and my mother and my...
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Apr 21, 2016
The Meaning of Life and grocery shopping!
It was just a quick trip to the grocery store to get food for dinner. My Chinese son, aka Lulu, and I were preparing for his last meal at...
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Apr 7, 2016
"The World is Too Much with Us"
Born on this day in 1770, William Wordsworth is known as the Father of Romantic Poetry, his most famous work "The Prelude" thought to be...
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Apr 6, 2016
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
In literature, George Gordon, Lord Byron is often referred to as "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He was churlish and ill-mannered but...
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Apr 5, 2016
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Promised Land
I've been reading a lot about Martin Luther King Jr. lately. A couple of days ago was the anniversary of his last speech. One story I...
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Mar 29, 2016
Dying and Rising: Metanoia
New Life The only way we can enter into new life, our true life, is by dying and rising. This is the way to life that Jesus shows us:...
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Mar 28, 2016
Resurrection Fern
And so the season of Easter begins. Fifty days it lasts, until the Feast of Pentecost. In 40 days, we celebrate Jesus's Ascension into...
