I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.