Month: March 2026

Falling into the Gap

Palm Sunday Scripture Readings Holy Week begins with Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. It ends in defeat and death. What happened there in the middle? Remember the advertising jingle from […]

03/29/2026 Homily
Flesh and Spirit and Life

Paul contrasts two life-orientations—sarx and pneuma—and the raising of Lazarus shows us what it looks like when grief becomes trust.

03/22/2026 Homily
The Nature of Sin

Fourth Sunday of Lent Scripture Readings You know, it’s not every Sunday that I get significant theological insights and understanding from my work with the scriptures in preparing my homily […]

03/15/2026 Homily
Give Me a Drink

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst;

03/08/2026 Homily
Now Walk

Second Sunday of Lent Scripture Readings Out of the whole liturgical year of following Jesus through his words and deeds, Lent stops all that and invites us to focus on […]

03/01/2026 Homily

Reversing Course

May we ever confess to the glory of God the Father, Jesus Christ is Lord.
Is Your Eye Evil?

God doesn’t operate within a merit economy where everyone gets exactly what’s due them. God operates within a grace economy, where everyone receives not only what’s due, but more. The question was never whether the landowner was fair. The question is: is your eye evil because he is good?
Compassion, Love, and Mercy

The debt forgiven was billions; the debt refused was thousands. Jesus’s parable isn’t only about an ungrateful servant — it’s about compassion received and compassion withheld. Failures in compassion are, in the end, failures in gratitude. And the torturers we’re handed over to wear our own face.
Sin and Punishment

Punishment purchases compliance at the cost of resentment. It cannot bring about metanoia. Before we confront someone’s wrong, we have to ask: does it need to be said? Does it need to be said by me? Does it need to be said now? Correction, rightly practiced, seeks conversion, not vengeance.
The Fundamental Option

Give in to the voice that says you’re too weak, not good enough, settle for the easier way — or take up your cross and go through your fears into the life of the Spirit. Karl Rahner called it the fundamental option. For all of us, the choice is the same: death or life. Choose life.
Living with Uncertainty

Peter confesses, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” — but did he even understand what he was saying? Between Shebna and Eliakim, between Pan and Yahweh, between the good popes and the self-serving ones, Scripture keeps handing us dichotomy rather than clarity. Growth doesn’t come from certainty, but from the willingness to sit with what we don’t fully understand.