1/8/07: Getting and Not Getting the Secret
12/17/06: Searching for Bethlehem in the Soul
12/10/06: Freedom, Liberation, Frigidity and Uptightness
12/3/06: Growth Through Dark Nights
11/26/06: Looking for Rest amid the Pressures of Life
11/19/06: Steadying Ourselves in the Storm
11/5/06: The Communion of Saints
10/29/06: Breathing Emotionally
10/22/06: On Healthy, Constructive Criticism
10/15/06: Some Reflections on the Priesthood
10/08/06: Sadness, Faces, Beauty
10/1/06: Standing on New Borders - Islam
9/24/06: Caring for our Hearts
9/17/06: What is True Religion?
9/10/06: The Struggle to Trust
8/27/06: Set Apart or One-With?
8/20/06: Our Real Moral Struggle
8/13/06: Home - The Place from which to Understand
8/6/06: Suicide - The Pain of the Ones Left Behind
7/30/06: Our Need For Confession
7/16/06: Stopping the Haemorrhaging by Touching the Hem of the Garment
7/9/06: Faith, Doubt and Imagination
7/2/06: In Pursuit of Innocence
6/25/06: Coping with the Divine Fire Within
6/18/06: Cultivating Loneliness
6/11/06: Interruptions, Our Real Work
6/4/06: The Sacredness of Work
5/28/06: The Mystery of Presence and Absence in Love
5/21/06: Needed: A New Maturity to Match our Freedom
5/14/06: Dealing with Hurt and Disappointment
5/7/06: Eucharist as God's Physical Embrace
4/23/06: A Mellow Heart in a Bitter Time
4/16/06: A Voice That Never Dies
4/2/06: Mary Under the Cross
[Last in a six-part Lenten Series on "Mystical Images"]
3/26/06: Walking Away out of Sorrow
[Fifth in a six-part Lenten Series on "Mystical Images"]
3/12/06: Betraying Jesus as Peter Did
[Third in a six-part Lenten Series on "Mystical Images"]
3/5/06: Sweating Blood in the Garden
[Second in a six-part Lenten Series on "Mystical Images"]
2/26/06: Listening to Christ's Heartbeat
[First in a six-part Lenten Series on "Mystical Images"]
2/19/06: Love's Baptismal Robe
2/12/06: What's Worthwhile is Worth Waiting for
2/5/06: Helping Each Other into Heaven
1/29/06: Deeper Things under the Surface
1/22/06: Making the Taboo a Holy Place
1/15/06: Standing Under the Cross
1/1/06: An Immune System within the Body of Christ
12/18/05: Keeping Watch with the Shepherds in Bethlehem
12/11/05: Don't Worship Your Emotions
12/4/05: Being Blessed by Pagan Friends
11/27/05: Cataclysms of the Heart
11/20/05: The Litmus Test for being Christian
11/13/05: Feeling God in Vulnerability
10/30/05: Living With Fear and Timidity
10/23/05: Speaking our Truth from a Deeper Place
10/16/05: Our Struggle for Community
10/2/05: Our Inability to Cast out Demons
9/25/05: Proofs for the Existence of God
9/18/05: On Being Jealous of God's Generousity
9/11/05: Acknowledging Our Own Complexity
8/28/05: Moving to a New Job and a New City
8/21/05: When Feeling Down and Out
8/14/05: From Depression To Delight
8/7/05: Keeping Our Loved Ones Connected To The Body Of Christ
7/31/05: A Lesson From Some Young Missionaries
7/24/05: The Mystical Imagination
7/17/05: The Struggle To Understand Suicide
7/10/05: The Truth Sets Us Free
6/26/05: What The Next Hundred Years Will Bring
6/12/05: Meeting God Without Fear
6/5/05: Searching For A New Maturity
5/29/05: Supporting Family Values
5/22/05: The Jesus Code - Unravelling The Secret
5/8/05: The Mystery Of Saying Goodbye
5/1/05: Permission To Be Unhappy
4/17/05: Multi-Citizenship - Wide Loyalties
4/10/05: The Descent Into Hell
4/3/05: On The Death Of John Paul II
3/20/05: Tasting The Darkness Of Good Friday
3/13/05: Gethsemane - The Place To Give Up Resentment (Last in a Six Part Lenten Series)
3/5/05: Gethsemane - The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Weak (Fifth in a Six Part Lenten Series)
2/27/05: Gethsemane As The Place We Are Put To The Test (Fourth in a Six Part Lenten Series)
2/20/05: Gethsemane - The Place Of Moral Loneliness (Third in a Six Part Lenten Series)
2/13/05: Gethsemane - A Place To Learn A Lesson (Second in a Six Part Lenten Series)
2/6/05: Gethsemane As Liminal Space (First in a Six Part Lenten Series)
1/23/05: "Get Behind Me Satan!"
1/16/05: Honoring Jacques Dupuis
1/9/05: Against An Infinite Horizon
1/2/05: The Inclusive Embrace of Catholicism
12/26/04: The Earthiness of Christmas
12/19/04: Faith Means That God Is With Us
12/12/04: Jesus' Dysfunctional Family Tree
12/5/04: Naming Our Restlessness
11/21/04: Finding Our Loved Ones After Their Deaths
11/14/04: Songs of Innocence and Experience
11/7/04: Unspeakable Loneliness
10/17/04: Failure and the Second Half of Life
9/26/04: Struggling With Being Blessed
9/19/04: Offering Sanctuary For Sadness
9/12/04: Beauty As God's Language
8/29/04: Struggling With Possessiveness
8/22/04: Mourning Our Virginity
8/15/04: Conceiving of God - Metaphor and Reality
8/8/04: Irritations and the Spiritual Life
8/1/04: Substance and Appearance
7/25/04: Suicide - The Most Misunderstood Of All Deaths
7/11/04: Helping Create a Symphony of Prayer
7/4/04: Living With Our Own Complexities
6/27/04: The Struggle for Sincerity
6/20/04: Providence and The Conspiracy of Accidents
6/13/04: The Therapy of Family, Community and Church
5/23/04: A Spirituality of the Ascension
5/9/04: A Spirituality of Non-Hurrying
5/2/04: On Becoming Post-Liberal
4/25/04: Setting our Ecclesial Gauges
4/18/04: Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ
4/11/04: Waiting for the Resurrection
4/4/04: The Agony in the Garden - The Place of Transformation (Last in a Seven Part Lenten Series)
3/21/04: The Agony in the Garden - The Special Place of Prayer(Fifth in a seven-part Lenten Series)
3/7/04: The Agony in the Garden - The Place to Stay Awake(Third in a seven-part Lenten Series)
2/29/04: The Agony in the Garden - The Place to Sweat Blood: (Second in a seven-part Lenten Series)
2/15/04: The Romantic Imagination with Religion
1/18/04: The Spirit, The Water and The Blood
1/11/04: Faith, Church and Commitment in an Imperfect World
1/4/04: Facing Otherness and Differences
12/28/03: Interruptions, Our Real Work
12/21/03: On Not Letting The Sky Wilt
12/14/03: Christmas - No Room At The Inn
12/7/03: Mary As A Model of Faith
11/23/03: Faith and a Time of Agnosticism
11/16/03: Jesus' Moral Loneliness
11/2/03: A Wisdom Born of Pain
10/26/03: An Invitation To A Deeper Virtue
10/19/03: The Value of Praying a Doxology
10/12/03: Conservatism Is A Good Place To Start From
10/5/03: Dark Nights of the Soul
9/21/03: Living with Criticism
9/14/03: Coping With Our Own Complexity
9/7/03: From Self-Protection To Being Food For The Life Of The World
9/1/03: The Width Of Our Ecclesial Embrace
8/24/03: Spirituality and the Second Half of Life
8/17/03: The Abuse Scandal as a Dark Night of the Soul
8/3/03: True and False Notions of Freedom
7/27/03: Our Misconceptions About Suicide
7/20/03: Our Struggle With Envy
7/13/03: Reading the Signs of the Times
7/6/03: Our Generation's Particular Task
6/29/03: Against an Eternal Horizon
6/15/03: From Asking to Be Carried to Helping Carry
6/8/03: Falling Asleep Out Of Sorrow
6/1/03: Reflection on Vocations
5/18/03: Being Missionary To Our Own Children
5/11/03: Cassie Bernall - Unlikely Martyr
5/4/03: The Potential and Dangers of Powerlessness
4/20/03: The Beauty of Light and Morality
4/13/03: Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do!
4/6/03: The Value of Ritual in Sustaining Prayer
3/16/03: Priestly Prayer - Prayer for the World
3/2/03: Pray Always - Prayer as Lifting Heart and Mind to God
2/23/03: A Challenge from our Born-Again and Devotionally-Oriented Siblings
2/16/03: The Churches and the Social Gospel
2/09/03: In Defense of Mystery
2/02/03: The Loneliness of Leaving Home
1/26/03: Pentecost Happened at at Meeting
1/19/03: Ministering with Authority
1/05/03: Perspective on Scandal
12/29/02: Awakening the Christ-Child
12/22/02: On Being Loved Sinners
12/8/02: The Promise of Christmas
12/1/02: Lighting Advent Candles
11/24/02: Privileged Communication within the Communion of Saints
11/17/02: Twenty Years "In Exile"
11/10/02: Turning our Eyes Toward Heaven
11/3/02: The Anthropological Function of Gossip
10/27/02: The Dream of Fewness
10/20/02: Living in a Moral Diaspora
10/13/02: The Eucharist as Touch
10/06/02: Polishing our Stones
9/29/02: Kathleen Norris - An 8ine for our time
9/15/02: Faults of the Parents in the Children
9/08/02: Missionaries to Secularity
8/25/02: The Tale of Two Flights
8/18/02: The Illusion of our own Innocence
7/28/02: Three Things for Conservatives to Ponder
7/21/02: Three Things for Liberals to Ponder
7/14/02: Bewailing our Virginity
7/07/02: Suicide - When Someone is too Bruised to be Touched
6/30/02: Taking our Rightful Place with the Scheme of Things
6/23/02: The Right to Call Another To a Vocation
6/9/02: Moving Beyond "Our Little Rule"
6/2/02: Giving Up Our Need To Be Right
5/26/02: Ten Tensions to Carry
5/19/02: From the House of Fear to the House of Love
4/28/02: On Envying the Amoral
4/21/02: A Rich Tradition of the Heart
4/14/02: On Hearing the Voice That Soothes
4/7/02: The Gaze of Sheer Admiration
3/31/02: God's Resurrecting Power as Ultimate Truth
3/24/02: The Cross as Revealing The Inner Life of God
3/17/02: The Cross as Revealing Christ's Descent into Hell
3/10/02: The Cross as Revealing God's Presence in the Poor
3/3/02: The Cross as Revealing The True Cost of Love
2/24/02: The Cross as Revealing The Passion
2/17/02: The Cross as Revealing God's Unconditional Love
2/10/02: The Cross as Revealing the Non-Violence of Christ
2/03/02: Loneliness and the Second Half of Life
1/27/02: Sexuality and Creativity
1/20/02: Mourning our Inconsummation
1/12/02: The Empathetic Gaze of God
1/6/02: Coping with the Imago Dei
1/1/02: Commandments for the long Haul
12/17/01: Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap
12/9/01: Haunting Each Others Dreams
11/11/01: Giving Our Deaths to Our Loved Ones
10/28/01: In Praise of the Ordinary
10/21/01: The Prayer of Helplessness
10/14/01: A Child Not Fully Grown
10/7/01: Remaining in the Upper Room
9/30/01: God's Risk...Our Freedom
9/16/01: And the Whole World Changed
9/9/01: God Underneath - A Priest's Diary
8/26/01: Receiving our Faith Tradition
8/19/01: A Culture of Amazement
8/12/01: Anxiety as the Opposite of Faith
8/5/01: Real and False Humility
7/29/01: Splitting the Inner Atom
7/22/01: Our Misunderstandings about Suicide
7/15/01: On Naming the Present Moment
7/08/01: On Not Committing the Original Sin
6/10/01: Finding God in Community
6/03/01: Praying for Pentecost
5/13/01: The Grace in Creativity
4/29/01:God's Bosom, Our Self-Understanding
4/22/01: Praying Lauds and Vespers
4/15/01: Living Beyond our Crucifixions
4/8/01: The Eucharist As Vigil
4/1/01: The Eucharist As Washing Each Other's Feet
3/25/01: The Eucharist As Reconcilation
3/18/01: The Eucharist as Sacrifice
3/11/01: Eucharist As New Manna
3/4/01: Eucharist As Molding Us into Community
2/25/01: Eucharist As God's Physical Embrace
2/18/01: Love of Enemy as the text of Orthodoxy
2/4/01: The Tension Between Theology and Piety
1/21/01: Carrying Ecclesial Disprivilege
1/14/01: From Maintenance to Missionary
1/7/01: The Domestic Monastery
1/1/01: Commandments for Making Friends
12/26/00: Sober Questions on a New Year's Eve
12/17/00: Advent: Curing Fire by Fire
12/10/00: Advent: Gestating Hope into Reality
12/3/00: Advent: Creating a Space of Chastity
11/26/00: Advent: Preparing for the Sublime
11/20/00: Culpable and Inculpable Ignorance
11/13/00: Weeping in a Valley of Tears
11/6/00: How Interesting is God?
10/30/00: Being Present to God and Life
10/22/00: The Great Divorce - Energy from Wisdom
9/24/00: The Notion of Suicide Revisited
9/17/00: On Not Overreacting to Criticism
9/10/00: Christ's Face in Today's Priesthood
8/27/00: A Spirituality of Parenting
8/20/00: The Tyranny of Program
8/13/00: A Not-so-subtle Return to the Survival of the Fittest
8/06/00: Where the Cross is Forever Erected
7/30/00: Suicide: Some Misconceptions
7/23/00: Amazement as Blocking Compassion
7/16/00: Following Jesus: Be ready for some Suprises
6/25/00: The Church in Europe - Lessons to be Learned
6/18/00: On Sex and the Unsurrendered Life
5/28/00: Needed: Saints and Prophets Within Secularity
5/21/00: What makes For A Practising Catholic?
5/14/00: Learning The Language of Rebirth
5/7/00: When Doing Nothing Is Enough
4/16/00: The Tearing of the Temple Veil
4/8/00: The Desert of Gesthemane
4/2/00: The Desert of God's Closeness
3/26/00: The Desert - A Womb of Emptiness
3/19/00: Facing Our Demons In The Desert
3/12/00: The Desert - A Place of Preparation
2/20/00: In Defense of Chastity in a Post-Chaste Culture
2/13/00: Color and Wisdom in God's Face
2/6/00: A Lonely Place From Which To Pray - Moral Loneliness
1/30/00: In Defense of Daily Eucharist
1/23/00: The Storm on the Lake
1/16/00: Globalization - A Perspective From The Other Side
1/2/00: The Death of Innocence
12/26/99: The Dawn of a New Millenium
12/19/99: The Christmas Symbols
12/12/99: Readying Ourselves For Christmas By Celebrating Reconciliation
12/5/99: A Theology of Longing and Desire
11/28/99: Two Concepts of Holiness
11/14/99: Praying for the Dead
10/31/99: Needed: Three New Saints
10/24/99: Our Real Loss of Innocence
10/17/99: Peace To Those Who Enjoy God's Favor
9/26/99: Being in Solidarity with a Mixed World
9/19/99: Three Prophetic Challenges For Our Generation
9/12/99: Faith and the Imagination
9/5/99: Powerlessness and Frustration
8/29/99: God's Unconditional Love
8/22/99: Needed: A Theology of Original Sin
8/15/99: On Not Hiding From God
