Was Macbeth Right?

Macbeth cannot meet any morning with hope, so his mornings relentlessly arrive, cheerless and bleak.

Easter in Ordinary Time

There is a strange kind of overlapping that we Christians find ourselves living out in between the first advent of Christ and his eventual glorious appearing.

Fear at the Resurrection

It’s a little uncomfortable, perhaps even embarrassing, that the disciples were afraid on Easter Day.

The hope of glory

In Romans 8, St. Paul develops the contrast between present sufferings and future glory.

Climbing the ladder of God’s delight

My first encounter with natural delight changed my life. I ended up leaving my parish ministry in North Carolina to move to the United Kingdom. Since then, I’ve gone out into wildernesses and the countryside with increasing regularity, spending as much time as I responsibly can soaking in the natural world and learning how to delight.