I’m looking forward to some more hopeful future in which I might be able to join the Church again—maybe over a bowl of purréed mangos—in sanctifying the day.
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Category: Pastoral Theology
Mercy is the Problem
During my undergraduate days at The Catholic University of America, I was very fortunate to take an upper level christology course, “Jesus as the Christ,”
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Again and again let us pray to the Lord
Through repetition, we “remember the future.”
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What My Dreams are Telling Me about Covid-19
I, or at least my subconscious, is mightily struggling across this desert-sea of worship-less existence.
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Brief Book Review: Church as Dynamic Life-System
David Stosur reviews Joseph A. Bracken’s Church as Dynamic Life-System
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Wash Your Hands!
Can our hand-washing become sacramental?
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Liturgies of Lament
As this pandemic drags on, I find that moments of hope and gratitude are interspersed with times of deep grief and frustration. At one level,
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Clericalism and the Pandemic
As any diocesan director of worship knows, there has been much to navigate during this distorting period in human history. At the center of concerns
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Liturgy and COVID-19
What does it mean to be a people who must exist—even temporarily—without the day of the Lord?
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The Yale ISM Review: On Healing
What is healing about? How does it take place? What roles do prayer, liturgy, and the arts play in the process of healing? These are some of the questions raised and discussed in this issue.
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